gianmarcogg03, to random

I'm currently working on testing out and prototyping a new based on ! The hardware isn't new because I'm just recycling my old desktop (previously known by the hostname Higher and later Radiance) with the goal of building a replacement for my current Sunfish server with a better CPU (for now a dual core but I'm planning an upgrade), more RAM (16GB over the current 4GB, although no more ECC), tons of RAID configured hard disks (currently testing old random disks) and much more!

Photo of the Samsung CRT showing the neofetch of the server with NixOS 22.11, the Linux-libre kernel version 6.2.11, Plasma Wayland, the Pentium G4400 dual core CPU with its HD Graphics 510 and the 16GB of RAM with currently 2.1GB in use.
Peeking at the internals, the motherboard with a stock Intel cooler and a bunch of hard drives shelved in the case metal rails.

thisismissem, to fediverse
@thisismissem@hachyderm.io avatar

In something that may surprise a whole bunch of people, the notion of an "instance" is something of a lie.

Instances don't technically exist: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#server-to-server-interactions

ai6yr, (edited ) to IT
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org avatar

Random home IT survey; what's your favorite solution for a pile of network switches/UPS/computer gear? (homeowner with room that is going to be torn down to studs very soon...) #IT #server #rack #survey

melroy, (edited ) to kbin
@melroy@mastodon.melroy.org avatar

Mbin is alive and kicking! A community-focused fork of Kbin, which has tons of improvements, features and bug fixes. Mbin is a federated content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform.

Feel free to host your own instance on the fediverse! If you are already running Kbin; migrating is straightforward towards Mbin and experience the benefits yourself.

https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

janettespeyer, to fediverse
@janettespeyer@flipboard.social avatar

Who can see my posts? I am super curious as to how far this can travel? Learning the is interesting but a tad confusing for the laypeople like me. If anyone has an analogy do share. Visualizations help.

der, to random

Frage an die Hoster-Community.

In der config-Datei gibt es die Variable clusterLimit, über die man bestimmen kann, wieviele Worker-Prozesse gestartet werden sollen.

# Number of worker processes
clusterLimit: 3

Gibt es bei Calckey die Möglichkeit, mehrere zusammen zuschließen oder ist man auf einen Server beschränkt?

stefan, (edited ) to fediverse
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online avatar

Question for instance admins. Is your server financially sustainable?

I'd say this applies to people running their personal instances.

selea, to linux

For reasons, I have to probably close down my home-lab during for a few weeks/months this fall.

Does anyone have any recommendation to what provide I might move my workloads?

They consist of:

  • One small kuberenetes cluster
  • Web and database servers
  • matrix-synapse server
  • other various servers

Is Hetzner still the "go to" provider?
The only thing that I need is an european (preferably swedish) provider, and is nice to the wallet.

syntaxseed, (edited ) to IT
@syntaxseed@phpc.social avatar

Got a bit turned around searching for off-server cloud backup options.

Where do people do this? To some kind of static/cdn type service like S3 or Spaces? To a second VPS? To cloud backup services like Dropbox/Drive/Etc?

Was hoping to use the client's existing DropBox account which has lots of storage.

Went down a rabbit hole but then found Rclone (cloud wrapper for Rsync) which looks like a good fit. Got a proof of concept working. 👍

rolle, to linux
@rolle@mementomori.social avatar

What's the best web based monitoring system (CPU, RAM, disk, network, etc.)? I don't like Grafana (don't ask me what's wrong with it, I'm a guy with a precise taste for aesthetics).

ted, to opensource German

Software für Web-Gutscheine gesucht.

Hallo in die Weiten des Fediverse,

kennt jemand eine Web-Software, mit der man Gutscheine verwalten kann? Das ganze soll idealerweise OpenSource, für Linux und zum selber Hosten sein. Wenn die Software ein paar Euros (50 .. 100 €) kostet, ist das aber vermutlich auch ok.

Kunde soll per Webformular Gutscheine kaufen, bezahlen, ausdrucken und verschenken können. Der Beschenkte kommt, löst den Gutschein ein und das Personal kann den Gutschein prüfen und damit entwerten.

So mal ganz grob, wie ich mir das Prinzip vorstelle.

Weiß da einer von euch was oder kennt jemanden, der was wissen könnte?

@linux #self-hosted #hosting #OpenSource #app #web #FragDasFediverse #server #linux #admin #software

mackuba, to linuxadmin
@mackuba@martianbase.net avatar

Ok, VPS questions again: does anyone here have experience with VPSes in: ArubaCloud, Netcup, Ionos/1and1 or Scaleway (dedicated)? 🤔

robchapman, to FediPact
@robchapman@ohai.social avatar

When are Threads doing the federation bit??

I wonder because, at some point I guess I'll have to find a new server that is part of the fedipact.

hirad, to ubuntu

What the hell ?!

cliffwade, to mastodon
@cliffwade@allthingstech.social avatar

@beardedtechguy and I are considering moving from fully managed to fully hosted for our Mastodon server/instance.

I'm looking for suggestions of places where other admins who run their own fully hosted server.

Who do you host with?

What are the prices like?

Have you had any issues?

The more details you can provide, the better. Just trying to get ideas of where to look before we possibly make a jump.

rolle, to Bash
@rolle@mementomori.social avatar

So proud of my disk size monitoring script, so I'm just going to share it here as-is:

#!/bin/bash

diskspace.sh

Set up the mountpoint

MOUNTPOINT="/mnt/somethingsomething"

Get disk usage and total

DISK_USAGE=$(df -hk | grep "$MOUNTPOINT" | awk '{print $3}')
DISK_TOTAL=$(df -hk | grep "$MOUNTPOINT" | awk '{print $2}')

Convert from block sizes to GB

DISK_USAGE_GB=$((DISK_USAGE / 1024 / 1024))
DISK_TOTAL_GB=$((DISK_TOTAL / 1024 / 1024))

How much is allowed to be left

DISK_GB_LIMIT="8"

How much is left

DISK_GB_LEFT=$((DISK_TOTAL_GB - DISK_USAGE_GB))

if [ "$DISK_GB_LEFT" -lt "$DISK_GB_LIMIT" ]; then
echo "Less than ${DISK_GB_LIMIT} GB left! Only ${DISK_GB_LEFT} GB left!"
else
echo "There is still ${DISK_GB_LEFT} of ${DISK_TOTAL_GB} GB left. No need to be alarmed as the alarming size is ${DISK_GB_LIMIT} GB."

Your heartbeat curl here:

curl https://example.com/endpoint;
fi

Set up a cronjob:

Disk size heartbeat

*/3 * * * * bash /path/to/diskspace.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

crazy2bike, to fediverse German

Ich werde der ein oder andere Person einen auf meinen ermöglichen und habe dazu eine allgemeinere als meine eigene crazy-to-bike.de registriert.

Nun stellt sich noch die Frage nach der richtgen für die .

Gut wäre natürlich etwas, was möglichst und eine verspricht. Da fällt einem natürlich als Erstes ein.

Das gefällt mir aber im Vergleich zu anderen Möglichkeiten weder optisch, noch finde ich die gut.

Derzeit bin ich ja auf unterwegs, aber das scheint den letzen Prognosen zu Folge ein höchstwahrscheinlich totes Pferd zu sein.

als weiteren -Nachfolger teste ich gerade auch, was für mich eine mögliche Alternative zu Firefish ist. Aber auch dieses Projekt ist ja noch sehr frisch und in meinen Augen einfach nicht absehbar, wie dauerhaft das Ganze fortbesteht.

Auf war ich ja auch schon eine Zeit lang unterwegs, aber das ist optisch auch sehr angestaubt und hat bei mir auf dem Server auch datenbanktechnisch rebelliert.

Ich weiß, dass es noch eine ganze Reihe Alternativen gibt, will und kann aber nicht alles durchprobieren.

Daher hoffe ich auf gute Tipps.

Wichtig ist

  • kein, hohes oder einstellbares Zeichenlimit
  • gute Strukturierung und Kategoriesierung von Lesezeichen (wie bei Firefish und Sharkey mit den Clips)
  • Folgen von und / oder Begriffen (wie bei Firefish und Sharkey mit den Newspickern / Antennen)
  • gutes, ansprechendes und leicht bedienbares responsive Design für die Nutzung auf dem Smartphone (oder volle Unterstützung durch eine App wie bei Mastodon)

Schön wäre

  • Konfigurierbarkeit des Speicherverbrauchs durch die Föderation (was wird wie lange auf dem eigenen Server vorgehalten) wie bei Mastodon
  • automatische Löschung von Beiträgen konfigurierbar wie bei Mastodon
  • hohe Wahscheinlichkeit einer nachhaltigen Weiterentwicklung
  • Moderierte Kontoerstellung wie bei Mastodon

Je länger ich hier schreibe, denke ich, dass Mastodon für sehr vieles davon wohl die richtige Software wäre - will ich aber eigentlich aus Gründen nicht.

likewise, to random

Just reading an announcement that the home.social instance (the instance I use) will most likely be closing later this year. This has been such a nice place to be within the fediverse, so I hate to hear this.

Now, where to think of moving to, it seems a little overwhelming 😕 ? !

nixCraft, to sysadmin
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar
marcia, to Futurology
@marcia@spore.social avatar

Anyone have a suggestion of a good Mastodon for ResearchForTheFrontLines.ca?

We're a organization that provides support to communities and movements fighting for environmental and justice across Canada.

congames007, to linux

Question for my system engineers:

What's better for a home lab

  1. One application per VM
  2. Couple applications per VM
  3. All applications on one VM

I got around 6-7 applications that run on my server

#linux #server #servers #systemengineers #vm #virtualmachine #truenas #jellyfin #plex #emby #pihole #homeassistant #ubuntu #ubuntuserver

thomas, (edited ) to random
@thomas@metalhead.club avatar

When deleting data from any snapshot-enabled filesystem, keep in mind that deleting data actually means adding data - if an earlier snapshot of your dataset exists.

Migrating 80 GB of PostgreSQL from version 11 to 13 does not only mean + 80 GB of new, migrated data, but +160 GB of added data if you delete the old database files.

It has bit me more than once. Soo. just keep that in mind if you use snapshots :D :thisisfine: 🔥

thomas, to streaming German
@thomas@metalhead.club avatar

Mein Jellyfin Server auf einem Rock64 hat jetzt tatsächlich fast 10 Minuten gebraucht, bis er nach einem Kaltstart wieder verfügbar war. Das ist mir zu lang.

Auf der anderen Seite - wenn er mal läuft, dann reicht der Rock64 für Musikstreaming leistungsmäßig völlig aus.

Will aber eigentlich gerade kein Geld für neues Spielzeug ausgeben :S

Also bleibt's wohl erst mal dabei ;-)

mackuba, to random
@mackuba@martianbase.net avatar

Hello from an ARM server 😎

I moved the Mastodon instance to Netcup as a test, I'll see how it behaves - if it's slower, I'll move it back, but if it's fast enough then I'll keep it and it will be half the price of the current one (~€6 vs €12) 💶

It might actually be faster - the CPU is slower at single-core, but there are 6 cores, there's way more RAM (8 vs 2) and a faster SSD. It does feel noticeably snappier, I think - I guess it suffocating in that 2 GB with an Elastic service…

cdarwin, to mastodon
@cdarwin@c.im avatar

In recent weeks, a few posts had appeared on the #asstodon tag that were of butts, not donkeys, and controversy ensued.

Here it is worth describing some key features of #Mastodon in additional detail.
First, #federation, and #feeds:
As noted, each user is hosted on a specific #server; and this #network of servers comprises Mastodon.
Each user has a personal feed; a “home/neighborhood” feed; and a “federated” feed.

Because of how federation stitches together a user’s experience from the vantage point of their home server, views looking outward to the network vary.
While one can follow individual users across other servers,
👉whether one sees the posts of users one does not follow in one’s personal and “federated” feeds is dictated by interactions and follows across servers.
A user on a very small instance
— and some are as small as a dozen users, or even a single user
— would not see posts from other servers in their “federated” feed unless their instance-mates were following users across each of those servers.

Some servers also choose to, at the server level, silence other servers, often because of lax or poor moderation that home moderators fear will affect their own home users.
Depending on whether this is a silencing or a full block, a user can personally follow another individual user on another instance;
but unless they have a pre-existing reason to know about that user, they might be unlikely to ever encounter them.

By contrast, very large servers, some with over 50,000 users, have quite a lot of activity right at home, before even federating outward.
Those users will see a very lively feed on the “home/neighborhood” feed; and a much bigger pool of posts can be seen on the “federated” feed, as it will be populated by people across many remote servers with whom “home” server-mates interact.

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13367/11436

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