cliffwade, to random
@cliffwade@allthingstech.social avatar

I really wish I had the knowledge and experience to run a fully hosted Mastodon instance.

There's so many things you can do being fully hosted that you can't do otherwise, and those things can often really add to an instance.

Sadly, I wouldn't even know where to begin to get a fully hosted instance up and running, much less keep it running smoothly at all times.

wombatDaiquiri,

@cliffwade
ok so here are tutorials from sorted easiest (least things to learn) to hardest (most things to learn). Keep in mind that the more things you learn, well... the more things you learn.

https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/mastodon

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mastodon-on-ubuntu-20-04

https://docs.digitalocean.com/developer-center/mastodon-on-digitalocean-kubernetes/

They have really good step-by-step tutorials

brunty, to random
@brunty@brunty.social avatar

Looks like there's an for right now

michael, to selfhosted
@michael@thms.uk avatar

I must say, I’m super impressed with : their €3.95 server consistently outperforms my old $14 server from by a mile!

michael, to random
@michael@thms.uk avatar

So, I’ve migrated my Mastodon Instance from a droplet to a IPv6-only VM.

The result: I'm now paying a third of what I used to pay, while having twice as many vCPUs and twice as much RAM. The whole instance is notably snappier now.

Thanks to @g3rv4 for his write up on how to get Mastodon play ball on IPv6 only:

http://g3rv4.com//2023/07/installing-mastodon-ipv6-only-host

The migration itself was really painfree, once I had that sorted out!

kerfuffle, to security
@kerfuffle@mastodon.online avatar

The new trend among people doing DoS attacks or vulnerability probing seems to be to run their tools from servers in America.

tilvids, (edited ) to reddit
@tilvids@mstdn.social avatar

If you're going to the trouble of moving your community, why would you move from one centralized service to another? I've given this advice to a number of subs so far:

  1. Start your own hosted website to post a daily summary of community news.

  2. Move your community to a federated service like or .

  3. Start a social channel on

The meltdown of Twitter and Reddit is a golden opportunity to let's not squander it.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794110/reddit-male-fashion-advice-protest-discord-substack

tilvids,
@tilvids@mstdn.social avatar

@pablor

It depends on what you're willing to pay, and how much work you're willing to do. If you don't mind paying a bit of money ($10-20 a month) then you can get a service like or and use a one-click installer for something like or

If you want to pay as little as possible, you can find a cheaper VPS (or even self-host) and install any of the above, but it's definitely more work and will require some technical trial-and-error.

outofcontrol, to random
@outofcontrol@phpc.social avatar

Anyone else having issues with . Unable to successfully complete a spin up of a new Droplets from a backup, and getting “Error: No CSRF cookie” when trying to open a support ticket. Status page claims everything is normal. Maybe it’s time I quit for the day.

KathyReid, to mastodon
@KathyReid@aus.social avatar

As folks might know, I the instance, which is a closed (must be approved) instance only for university and research group accounts in Australia / Oceania - because they're typically brand accounts and don't have a natural home in AU.

Yesterday I upgraded the storage for this Mastodon instance, and placed it on a .

If you're interested in this sort of thing, you can see the change plan here - because documentation is both helpful in the moment, and a good reference for others.

https://bit.ly/fediverseau-410-413-cdn-upgrade-plan

blaise, to til
@blaise@hachyderm.io avatar

that has a status bot in the Fediverse:
@dostatus

menelion, to random
@menelion@dragonscave.space avatar

I have to do lots of Linux administration these days. And guess what? The best articles about common tasks are made by . Many providers have their tutorials, but DigitalOcean ones surpass them all, in my opinion.

djpeacher, to django
@djpeacher@fosstodon.org avatar

From what I’ve experienced so far, the App Platform have been the most pleasant experience deploying projects that I’ve come across 🧘🏻 thoughts?

https://www.djpeacher.com/posts/deploy-django-with-digitalocean-app-platform/

majorlinux, to Pixelfed
@majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com avatar

I see @pixelfed is being talked about again.

I once again ask is there a good Docker container for ?

majorlinux,
@majorlinux@toot.majorshouse.com avatar

@jcrabapple @cliffwade Great!

Now I'm setting up a droplet for @yunohost ...lol

yeri, to Germany
@yeri@superuser.one avatar

Anyone on ? How are they nowadays. We’re on for a few servers (FlatTurtle.com) and they are definitely no longer the cheapest (once you upgrade RAM for example) and the performance hasn’t been super great (but that could be more of a feeling than something scientifically proven)

Just saw they have servers available in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36368586

Ruth_Mottram, to cycling
@Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org avatar

Riding to the @EU_Commission for the 2nd day of the forum.
It strikes me that if I lived in I would be lobbying VERY hard to have Rue de la Loi leading through the quarter closed to traffic and set aside for cyclists and pedestrians.

This should be an iconic view, imagine trees, bikes and people strolling instead of traffic + air pollution..

annika, to random
@annika@xoxo.zone avatar

I wish the Digital Ocean API let you get stats for a Spaces bucket. Would be great to graph usage over time.

categulario, to random Spanish
@categulario@mstdn.mx avatar

acabo de convertir 70 USD de en 12 EUR de

super win

kylewritescode, to linux
@kylewritescode@allthingstech.social avatar

Anyone familiar with installing Mattermost on a Digital Ocean Ubuntu droplet?

It has been giving me issues all day today. For some reason, it won’t pull up via my subdomain even after creating the A record to the droplets IP address. I’ve tried various tutorials.

woozle, to random

So, am I reading this right?

It seems to be claiming:

  1. Unless my ISP somehow authorizes email to be sent from my IP, Gmail will now bounce it.
  2. Unless I am hooked up with an email service that somehow has clout with Google, Gmail will bounce it.

Since the "ISP" through whom I am attempting to send mail is , I find item #1 to be dubious. They are not blocking my outgoing mail port, and I have no problems sending to most recipients (Google and Microsoft being the only exceptions I'm aware of).

DigitalOcean seems to encouraging its users to use a 3rd-party service -- but I'm already paying them for hosting, and managing my own email service; I don't want to pay yet another service just for the privilege of being allowed to send messages to Gmail's increasingly walled garden.

Is it time to formally ?

hugovk, (edited ) to opensource
@hugovk@mastodon.social avatar

Big thanks to for continued sponsorship of the server for Top PyPI Packages!

https://hugovk.github.io/top-pypi-packages/

It's been cited by dozens of scientific papers and theses:

https://github.com/hugovk/top-pypi-packages/issues/23

And is used by Python core developers:

https://dev.to/hugovk/how-to-search-5000-python-projects-31gk

How it works:

https://dev.to/hugovk/top-pypi-packages-4pfj

See https://www.digitalocean.com/open-source/credits-for-projects to find out if your project qualifies for sponsorship and https://m.do.co/c/431978e0c3e9 is my referral link for $200 credit over 60 days.

categulario, to random Spanish
@categulario@mstdn.mx avatar

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  • titociuro,
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    @categulario Yo la he estado utilizando desde hace un año más o menos. La verdad, no me ha dado problemas (la app es NodeJS y Redis). Por un droplet pago $32 al mes. Si te vas de , dónde piensas en ir. Hay algo igual o más simple de utilizar?

    og, to random

    I setup a for my friend on ... Go check it out 😁

    @mrissi_neko 😎

    og,

    @jcrabapple @mrissi_neko @mdmrn @mrissi_neko just curious did you think about using or ?

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