Reddit and Twitter are multimillion dollar enterprises
I’m just some fool who rents a little virtual server so I can help people use the fediverse
I mean I’m not even an IT guy by trade (just by hobby) - I’m a truck driver.
It’s a good thing it’s a virtual server. I can’t imagine the issues you would have if you hosted it from the back of your truck.
Hosting from the back of a truck would be a technological marvel in its own right.
It’s possible, but just expensive and unreliable mainly due to internet connection/bandwidth. Depending on where you are you can either go with a sim card or Elon’s space junk but the connection would be unreliable and slow.
It sounds like the plot of an action movie.
“We have to keep this truck above 50mph at all cost”
“OMG, IS IT GONNA EXPLODE?!”
“Oh no much worse. It’ll ruin my server uptime stat.”
Kinda like this: https://youtu.be/OLRldZjty_s
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I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
I cannot express my appreciation, and dude I assure you, you got bigger balls than elon’s chest
I am an it guy and mine still goes down… Lol. Your doing great to get an instance going! That setup isn’t exactly non tech friendly.
Mine went down yesterday because my backup job for my docker vols filled up my entire vps.
I was starting to run into that until I moved pict-rs to object storage a few days back.
I gzip the backups, keep one local, upload the rest to Backblaze. The local one gets deleted before the next backup starts.
Oh that’s genius, you got any good docs on doing that?
For the backups I have these bash scripts (the pict-rs one takes much less time now that I use object storage so the images aren’t on the server): https://gist.github.com/bdonvr/5d4e56dadcb29de656368a1cb78cc00e
You can look at rclone’s docs on how to hook that into B2 (or wherever you’d like to dump your backups, B2 is jusut cheap). I also set up a crypt in rclone so it encrypts it as it uploads (optional).
Then just put those on cron jobs at different times, I do them every 6 hours. One at <hour>:15 and one at <hour>:45
Then in B2 I set the bucket to keep files for 10 days.
To migrate to object storage check pict-rs docs here: https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs.git#user-content-filesystem-to-object-storage-migration
Took about 20 minutes for me with 30gb of files, but your instance has to be down for it. I use Cloudflare R2 for pict-rs.
Thank you very much. Seriously, that lays it all out perfectly. I was looking at the pict-rs docs for how to switch but then work called… so I really appreciate you taking the time to do this. 🙌 🍾 🎉 🥂
No problem
Oh and for those scripts the user needs paswordless sudo and needs to be part of the docker group, or you could add it to
root’s cron tab. Or maybe a systemd task. (Since the default ansible deploy of lemmy makes the pict-rs volume not readable by a normal system user)Finally got my stuff moved over to object storage. I really appreciate it. It wasn’t hard at all! THANK YOU
one of these is making a profit off of you, the other is a community tended commons. there is no comparison.
Yes exactly, those donkeys deserve it
A big part of the fediverse is that it’s decentralized, one server going down doesn’t mean you can’t see anything, the rest of the network still exists and there are still people using that.
Where’s the Lamb SOURCE CODE !?
