[Ronald]

Just FYI to the community we tweaked the installation one-liner slightly to improve best practices a bit…

Old:

wget -O ss slick.fyi && bash ss

New:

wget -O ss slick.fyi/ss && bash ss

[Gary]

This is because we are now using the slick.fyi domain for a few other things, such as in the root crontab as part of the self-healing function. Instead of hardcoding the raw files from GitHub, we now use this shortcut domain which means we could rapidly point SS servers to a “backup” server in case of GitHub problems like happened last week.

See here

https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/crons/00-crontab.txt

It now “heals” from e.g.

https://slick.fyi/crons/01-cron-minutely.txt

[Gloria]

So now https://slick.fyi/crons/* is 302 redirected using Cloudflare Page Rules to GitHub raw files, but in case of emergency we could point to GitLab or etc.

This means we need a more unique URL for virgin installs which is why that is now slick.fyi/ss instead of just slick.fyi

[Sandra]

For now slick.fyi will also point to raw ss-install file, just like slick.fyi/ss however that will likely change in the future.

[Mason]

Here is what it points to:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/master/bash/ss-install.txt

[Benjamin]

TLDR slick.fyi/ss is now considered more canonical for retrieving the latest ss-install file during virgin SlickStack installations 🙂

If any problems with functionality or DNS/security questions let us know.

[Alice]

nice

[Lauren]

why do you guys use .fyi just curious?

[Bruce]

why do you guys use .fyi just curious?

No reason, it was just available and cheap at the time… not anymore lol, I don’t recommend registering that TLD anymore.

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