I’m sure that’s totally going to help OCI’s reliability. And Ashburn won’t die for 3 straight days again, like it did this week.

If the container you’re hosting has a http web service on say port 8080, then you’d want to curl something at localhost:8080. The particular URL/path you hit will depend on the app. If the app is particularly cloud-y, it might even have a specific endpoint for health checking by a container platform. If you share the name of the app I might be able to point you in the right direction.

Wat? Why are people health checking their containers by curl’ing example.com and not the service actually running in the container? Did they not understand that they’re supposed to change the curl URL to point at their actual service?

This is such a dumb concept and likely exists entirely to wow investors. A single AI server with 8 GPUs produces something like 7000 watts of heat, if not more. And likewise, will require at least that much power. Sure, solar is “free” once you’ve got the panels in space. The real killer though is dissipating all that heat. Obviously, there’s no atmosphere in space to transfer heat to. Your only option is purely IR radiation which is significantly less efficient. To put this in context, the ISS’s heat dissipation system can dissipate about 14,000 watts. Ignoring all of the other infra that goes into a data-center, that would be two servers. You add all this up, the mass of the supporting infrastructure would far out-weigh the actual servers. And the economies of satellites and rocket launches comes down to mass.

Why are AI agents on the org chart? That’s odd and sketchy. Seems like it could be some sort of fraud to pad numbers.

I’ve got a Haltec V4 running on battery/solar as a rooftop node. It’s got a 10ah battery, but it’s solar panel came loose and is currently very poorly aligned. On a cloudy set of days, it drops to about 80%. That said, I had to disable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to do it. So really, not using ESP32 features, just it’s 1W transmitter. My dedicated MQTT node is also ESP32, with Wi-Fi enabled, but it’s constantly plugged in.

You’re going to a lot of effort to not actually mention what this thing is, which makes me wonder what it is and I suspect knowing that would provide additional and useful context.

I believe for urban areas, low gain is suggested. I’m in a suburban area, and after testing I found my repeater did better with a 2dbi antenna than a 6dbi.

Little update. Tried out this 2 dbi antenna tonight, and got probably about a 50% improvement in range. About 4500 feet before, to 1.25-1.5 mile depending on direction. So, definitely appreciate the suggestion!

In terms of layout, there were a few decisions. For antennas, it’s because I didn’t want to put too tight of a bend in either cable, preventing a crimp. Not sure if it matters. Likewise, the rak boards are pushed up as far as I can to keep enough room to easily access the USB ports should I need serial access.