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   PeerTube (peertube@framapiaf.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 18:38:58 JST PeerTube

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   • Framasoft
   • Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻
   • Sean Tilley

   @mro @deadsuperhero @Framasoft Latest PeerTube version should merge your YAML config in a `production.yaml.new` file :)

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     Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻 (mro@digitalcourage.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 18:39:00 JST Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻

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     • Framasoft
     • Sean Tilley

     @deadsuperhero may I add 'diffing idiosyncratic, repetitive yaml configs.'

     However I am happy @peertube exists, merci @Framasoft!

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     Sean Tilley (deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 18:39:08 JST Sean Tilley

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     • Sean Tilley

     Random things you need to know to maintain a #PeerTube server for years on end:

     ✅ Upgrading PeerTube
     ✅ Changing Node versions
     ✅ Tweaking nginx configs from one version to the next
     ✅ Using systemctl and journalctl to isolate error messages as they happen
     ✅ Using Sentry to capture context around error messages
     ✅ Reading stack traces
     ✅ Checking directory permissions when something won’t upload
     ✅ Troubleshooting ffmpeg for transcoding
     ✅ Setting up a remote runner to offset video transcoding on a small server
     ✅ Dealing with Object Storage
     ✅ Infrastructure upgrades
     ✅ Restoring from backups
     ✅ Migrating data to a new server
     ✅ Using psql to parse the database and manipulate records
     ✅ Using redis-cli to examine and drop stuck jobs
     ✅ Searching for weird and obscure error messages
     ✅ Moderating and managing a community
     ✅ Taking donations
     ✅ Keeping everybody in the loop

     Make no mistake: self-hosting is awesome, and being able to support a community is also awesome. It’s just that a lot of people get into hosting their own instances without realizing some of the crazy stuff they might have to do to keep things running.

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     Sean Tilley (deadsuperhero@social.wedistribute.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 18:39:14 JST Sean Tilley

     Every day, I become a more capable sysadmin. Not because I want to, but because I have to find new ways to solve weird problems.

     Today, I had to dig around in Redis to find old, stuck PeerTube jobs that wouldn’t ever clear, that were preventing the server from doing other kinds of jobs.