Add https://search.noob.quest

[noobdealer]

Requirements (make sure to read all of them)

• It is my instance. I bought the domain myself and I own this domain. Free domains (e.g. Freenom) and shared domains (e.g. noip.com) are not allowed.
• I'll keep my instance up to date, at the very least 1 week old. Example program for keeping up to date: watchtower, cron, ouroboros.
• I give the right to check.searx.space to check my instance (every 3 hours for the response times, every 24 hours for the other tests).
• I acknowledge that managing a public instance is not an easy task and require spending time to keep the instance in good health. E.g. look after your instance by using a monitoring system.
• I guarantee to keep an uptime per month of my instance at minimum 90%. Please ask for a removal of your instance if there is a planned long downtime or notify us here for a short downtime.
• I do not track the users of my instance with any analytics or tracking software.
• I won't try to manipulate the ranking of my instance in a way that give an unfair advantage over the other public instances in the list. (e.g. caching requests for searx.space server)
• I control the final webserver (software) that is serving the requests to the users of my instance. Here is a non-exhaustive list of forbidden hosting types: Cloudflare, PaaS, managed (hosting provider controlled) HTTP(S) load balancer (e.g. AWS ALB), shared Web hosting. TCP load balancer is fine. Cloudflare DNS only (grey cloud) is fine.
• If needed, I can restrict users from accessing my instance for the only sole reason of keeping my instance in working conditions for the other users (detailed description - evidence need to be provided when asked). Other means of restriction is forbidden.

Bot protection requirement

• Yes I have configured the server.public_instance parameter.

Source code URL

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Comment

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[github-actions]

Please consider joining our Matrix room for public instance maintainers by joining our Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#searxng:matrix.org
then pinging @ unixfox, @ dalf and @ mrpaulblack for asking to be invited to the Matrix room.
We discuss troubles managing a public instance, sharing some advices (like how to protect against bots), announcing big changes in searxng and more.

[ononoki1]

Hi @noobdealer, the AAAA record (2001:19f0:1000:34da:5400:4ff:feba:8154) of the domain is inaccessible.

[noobdealer]

Should now be fixed.

[ononoki1]

The domain no longer points to a SearXNG instance.

[return42]

The domain no longer points to a SearXNG instance.

@ononoki1; for me the URL https://search.noob.quest/ points to a SearXNG instance / should we reopen?

[ononoki1]

It redirected to mk.noob.quest when I checked. But now it's normal. Maybe some DNS issue?

[return42]

It redirected to mk.noob.quest when I checked. But now it's normal. Maybe some DNS issue?

Not sure may you tested accidentally noob.quest which is redirected to mk.noob.quest .. 🤷‍♂️

[unixfox]

this doesn't serve searxng anymore:

[return42]

@noobdealer can you please verify whats going on with your subdomain https://search.noob.quest

Sometimes it shows your main page from noob.quest (see comment above) sometimes its routed to the SearXNG instance:

[noobdealer]

Hi, I apologize for the subdomain problems. I'm currently working on it and I'll hopefully have it fixed soon.

EDIT: Both cURLing the subdomain and using GeoPeeker shows the search domain, please try now.

[return42]

EDIT: Both cURLing the subdomain and using GeoPeeker shows the search domain, please try now.

@noobdealer do not edit a comment, when you want to trigger the readers of this thread .. a new comment will be send out to the readers to trigger them .. which is now done :)

@unixfox @ononoki1 for me URL https://search.noob.quest/ points to a SearXNG instance .. does it now also work for you?

[ononoki1]

It works now. But I propose to wait 1 week for further confirmation.

[unixfox]

Going to permanently remove this instance because it's the third time that searxng is not served anymore.

Maintaining a searxng instance requires skill and based on the two mistakes I don't think you have enough skill/knowledge to manage a public instance.

Sorry. Please come back in 2/3 years when you have gained more experience in server hosting.