This website will be offline for several hours, intermittently, over the next day or so. My apologies...
I believe the website is now back online for the most part. There may be one or two random outages in the next few hours, but we're nearly sorted! Thank you for your patience...
Additionally, if you find scripts, software or anything else missing in the next few days, please let me know and I'll do my best to fix things swiftly.
Unfortunately, just as I began doing some pretty big maintenance on the website, I was struck down by a particularly nasty bout of something resembling a cross between 'flu and a big night out at the local unhygienic curry house! Yesterday was thus spent all day, groaning, in bed. Today is much better, but not perfect. Completely normal service may take a few days to resume, therefore...
Updated 21st March 2025: I think we're finally there! In case anyone's interested, I've finally fixed the problem I discussed almost 10 months ago: namely, that whilst installing TrueNAS made for a convenient 'appliance' experience, it also felt very 'constricted' and lacking the sort of total-control-flexibility I am used to with 'hands-on' Linux servers. More problematically, it was extremely difficult to migrate away from TrueNAS: I made several attempts to do so but kept encountering problems. I eventually did manage to migrate off to another FreeBSD-based server but was never able to move back to Linux cleanly or successfully. My recent work in getting Giocoso Pro working on both MariaDB and 'proper' MySQL turned out to help hugely here: it made me realise that MySQL uses a database collation (a built-in way of sorting data) that MariaDB doesn't understand. This was at the heart of my inability to migrate back to Linux: TrueNAS, it turns out, uses MySQL and thus a collation which Linux, which tends to use MariaDB by default, doesn't understand. Once I realised that, it was a relatively simple matter of forcing the installation of 'proper' MySQL onto Linux ...and the conversion between platforms then went relatively smoothly.
So the website is now running in a KVM virtual machine, running a fairly stable Linux distro, and all is well: I am comfortable exporting that to different physical hosts as needed, and to any different distro (or even back to FreeBSD) as the mood arises in the future. I shan't be using TrueNAS Core again any time soon, however: a year in that constricted straightjacket was more than enough!
Meanwhile, I have bounced from bad health to OK, back to poorly, and on to 'reasonable', which is where I'm currently at. Call it '70%'. Fingers crossed this coming weekend marks the turning of the corner on the road to a full, 100% recovery!