Notices tagged with vps

It's not cheap to run social media.

I used to self-host my Mastodon.

I set up the instance to heavily federate with others through my followings and relays.

The next day, my VPS reached 90GB of 100GB of storage, and my Mastodon website could not be accessed.

Other people advised me to use a VPS with 1TB or more for Mastodon.

#mastodon #social #socialmedia #experience #selfhosted #vps #opensource

@mcc @whitequark

On the upside, the #devops cloud infrastructure is such that it's much easier to spin up iron...

...or to coin a word, "precipitation" (if it's in the cloud).

I got my #VPS builds to about 30min...that's from the time you register an account, to when you have a fully functional system.

Now, it takes longer if you have a load balanced stack and distributed database, and while I have no first hand knowledge of complex #cloud infrastructure, from my cursory investigation, the most time demanding sink would be moving your massive database.

Is there a #VPS provider that lets me install #FreeBSD with no hacky workarounds and isn't GAFAM?

Hey @hetzner,

The folks at Fedora have done the work to make a Hetzner-specific image of CoreOS (see https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/1324).

When do you think we’ll be able to see it in this menu with a little lightning icon next to it?

Ball’s in your court now :)

#hetzner #CoreOS #VPS #provisioning

Happy to see Fedora has implemented CoreOS support for Hetzner. Guess the ball’s in Hetzner’s court now: would be great to see it as one of the natively-supported operating systems with rapid deploy (under 10 seconds deployment).

https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/1324

#fedora #coreOS #hetzner #VPS #servers #deployment

@brigrammer@poa.st

no fucking clue.

I'm using misskey, outta the box. It's got almost no English-language documentation. Takes a little bit of brainpower (and practice) just to run the bash installer.

#Misskey is a #Node #Typescript application, running on port 3000, and uses #postgresql and #redis for data backend. I'm assuming that the redis does fast cacheing of some sort, not sure what all is there. Also has #nginx set up as a #reverseproxy on port 80, even though the the documentation tells us to expose port 3000 to the world.

That's what I did. I'm assuming that most federation would still work even with port 3000 closed, but it's not worth taking the chance.

The entire application is very fast running and very snazzy looking when it's running all on one box with a good deal of hardware available.

I know that misskey works, and it's a good program, but I want it to be slightly budget-optimized and somewhat containerized so that I can tinker with other containerized applications with the #VPS I already have running.

Good morning Fedi friends!

I'd like to share with you information about my #VPS and resources it's using now that I'm #selfhosting.

Many of you have written in to say you were inspired to try #YunoHost following my toots. That's amazing 💛

So, a month in, I'm now running:
- a #GoToSocial instance: @elena
- my own @phanpy as a web client for it
- a #Pixelfed instance: @ele

My memory usage has shot up to 56% but otherwise resource usage has been pretty light, yay

#MySoCalledSudoLife

@evgandr@mas.to

I'm hosting my own code on my #VPS servers.

Following my latest poll (asking you to vote on the next Fediverse project I will cover), I will test #PeerTube and publish an article about it next month on #TheFutureIsFederated.

I’m just rethinking logistics: I may join an existing instance (and donate to it to support server costs).

Why? While backing up my #GoToSocial account I noticed the backup file ballooned from 280MB to 7.7GB after just one week of use (😱). I need to be mindful of resource usage for my #VPS.

#NoAdvice needed thx 😅

Celebrating the new year by starting on building out a bootstrap web app codebase from scratch. Just #helloWorld nonsense that supports login, logout, notifications, swipeable galleries and timelines, etc.

I'm abandoning my #openTofu #AI project for the time being, because the stupid cloud provider doesn't support launching cloud GPU via webservice, even though they have cloud #GPU, and even though they have a web API that can launch #VPS and other services.

Good morning Fedi friends!

🎄 All I want for Christmas is: checking off every item in my #VPS setup to do list without breaking anything 🎅

Buying a VPS, installing YunoHost, changing DNS records and installing #GoToSocial was SUPER EASY. These next tasks: not so much, despite all the articles I've been reading and videos I watched. As always, wish me luck!

P.S.: Santa I promise I was good this year

Special thanks to @mkj and @st3fan for the superb recommendations

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Good morning from Italy!

Taking advantage of the fact my parents are giving breakfast to my 3-year-old to do more #YunoHost tweaking.

I just ran the diagnostics and my jaw is ON THE FLOOR. I see GREEN ALL OVER - including "Email" (my nemesis) !!! 🥳

Wishing you all a lovely weekend!

#selfhosting #VPS #mySoCalledSudoLife

Good morning Fedi Friends!

Self-hosting journey day 3 – I'm about to check my #VPS setup to see if the #DNS records have finally propagated.

Massive massive respect for sysadmins and selfhosts who have to deal with this stuff all the time (and for critical jobs!)

Wish me luck 😅

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting #YunoHost

Update: yes, it was SO EASY a child (or a #Linux newbie) could do it.

I now have #YunoHost installed on my #VPS! 🥳

I wish I had timed how long it took - it was less than 5 minutes! This update comes 2 hours later because I've been dealing with other work stuff in the meantime.

All this to say: a HUGE thank you to the @yunohost team for creating such a phenomenal resource. Donation-as-thank-you coming soon 😊

🔗: https://yunohost.org

#selfhosting #empowerment #MySoCalledSudoLife

It’s happening!!! I signed up for a #VPS and I’m about to install #YunoHost. Exciteeeeeeed (and slightly scared).

I’m so early in my #Linux journey but I was emboldened after watching a video walkthrough of YunoHost, with the narrator repeating time and time again « it’s so easy a child could do it ».

Let’s see if « it’s so easy a Linux newbie could do it».

Wish me luck! 😅

#mysocalledsudolife

My #VPS where this #Mastodon instance is hosted are running out of space. I want to move the media storage off to a #S3 bucket. It seems simple enough – save for one thing: How do I move the current media files from the VPS to S3?

Can't find any information wether that happens automatically or if that's something I've to do manually. And if the latter – how?

#fediverse #selfhosted #SelfHosting

I made a step-by-step tutorial on how to install OpenBSD to the cheapest VPS I know about.
#openbsd #vultr #vps
https://www.graslander.online/index.php/installing-openbsd-to-a-vultr-vps/

#sponsor #ad #nulled #llc #company #money #forprofit #data #center #server #host #vps