Gregory's Server
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  @rysiek bei uns würde da stehen " Herbsthausen since anno xyz" - Isolierung, was ist das ?   @rysiek How many people host fedi instances at home, I mean I could get it for like one person it could work, but I doubt it would work a larger fedi instance @skymtf it was just a silly joke, playing on the deluge of new users straining fedi quite a bit lately. That said, we *should* be hosting our tiny personal fedi instances at home. The more distributed fedi becomes, the more resilient it ends up being. @skymtf @rysiek I recently was thinking about it and with decent hardware and fast internet connection... why not? #selfhosting is the way to go. @fault1er oh we should absolutely do that if we have the space and resources! THe more decentralized Fediverse gets, the more resilient it becomes. I was just making a silly joke. 😉 @skymtf @rysiek Well, I do that using Proxmox & Cloudflare Tunnels (old name Argo). The only issue is bandwidth & that depends where you live & hence what speed of fibre is available. #selfHosted #selfHosting #SelfHostingEverything #CloudflareTunnels #Proxmox #friendica @zrail @rysiek @skymtf I'm pushing 980Mbits with an upgrade option to 2Gbits (if I remember right). I speed limit each container in #proxmox so I can still watch #AmazonPrime :ms_wink: @rysiek @papertape @skymtf Nice. I keep bugging my ISP every 6 months to see if I can get 6Gbps symmetrical service. So far no dice. Maybe some day. @skymtf @rysiek i have quite a beefy computer that i use as server (which I'd pay like 100€+ if it was on a VPS), connection is not perfect (asymmetric 500/100Mbps, freakin ISP doesn't have symetrical plans even though it's fiber GPON....) but works for most servers. I have mastodon on a VPS just because, but I'll likely move it to my home server soon as the VPS is running out of processing power and RAM  @rysiek@mstdn.social i mean, its pretty funny :blobcatgiggle2:   @rysiek this is reality, especially since many friends are starting to move from the birdy social network  @rysiek lolz. Mind you I had some say to me today that in order to run their Mastodon server they need to buy hardware - like virtualization and cloud never happened :p @michellelaverick virtualization means roughly an order of magnitude less disk io performance, and for an io-heavy service like Mastodon... :oof: tl;dr virtualization and "cloud" are not silver bullets That said, people are running small Mastodon instances on Raspberry Pis, so. 😸 @rysiek as ever it’s all about the workload Vs resources. I think we pass the idea that physical hardware is where it’s at from infrastructure perspective. I imagine a scenario where ever home NAS (synology) could mastodon host which services the request of home users. Heck, it might there already… @rysiek - what i ended up doing was using https://elest.io/ to host micro instance of mastodon on the Hetzner cloud in Germany. That was a darn site easier than a freeium VM on Azure, and manually installing Mastodon (not for the fight hearted - although later I discovered there is an Ansible playbook in yaml I could have run) @rysiek Many years ago (last century) in my teens, I purchased a PDP-8i & a PDP-11/10 from the local university. They heated up the flat beautifully in the winters but the power/electricity bill was the lowest I had ever paid. I have always assumed it was due to some power factor phasing which interfered with the metering. I'm not complaining though. One of many life mistakes was getting rid of that tech. Loved it. :sob_cowboy: @rysiek Just noticed the nickname, Richard equivalent in Polish. I don't see. it often in my timelines. @harmonicarichard not a very popular name recently, no. Hence, a pretty good nickname. |
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"Remember that time I decided to install NetBSD on a DEC Alpha and run Mastodon? Warmest winter ever..."