I’ve noticed a (slight) increase in latency towards BSD Cafe services and some (brief) connectivity interruptions.
I’m considering a few options to move – at least temporarily – the VM hosting the actual services (not the one acting as reverse proxy, as I don’t want to change all the IPs right now) to another datacenter in Germany or to a different provider.
The move would still be very quick, and the downtime would be (slightly higher than) a reboot time.
I’ll evaluate the situation over the next few days.
As @jutty@bsd.cafe did an excellent job creating the Wiki page for requests, some proposals have already come in.
The first one has already been approved, and I am pleased to announce that the BSD Cafe now has a new service: Wallabag - in our case, called Press: https://press.bsd.cafe
The service is already active and running; I will add the information to the Wiki as soon as I have a moment.
Snac2 is an excellent software solution for accessing the Fediverse. It is lightweight, very easy to compile and install, has minimal dependencies, and the development is progressing along a clear, clean, and logical path - thank you, @grunfink@comam.es
Since last December, BSD Cafe has had, among its services, a snac instance - https://snac.bsd.cafe - which has been used sparingly, mainly by some for testing purposes. I’ve kept it as a 'testing' option.
In light of the interest it is generating (we now have stable users) and given that development is evolving to allow for both inbound and outbound movement, I have decided to designate it as a stable solution for accessing the Fediverse and to consider it a primary service of the BSD Cafe.
It has always received the utmost attention, I have consistently updated it promptly, and it has always been accessible, but I have also modified all the descriptions to clarify that it is a stable and definitive solution.
It seems a bandwidth problem. Sometimes the VPSes say "1 gbit connection" but actually are really slow, especially when sending out stuff. @OpenBSDAms@bsd.network is a very good choice, I like their approach and their way of operating.
As for migrating: just remember to add -H to rsync and everything will be ok (I've been moving files from NetBSD to OpenBSD to FreeBSD and back and snac2 didn't complain at all)
I'm @stefano@bsd.cafe and I am testing snac2 as another option for the BSD Cafe project.Please, if you're interested in my posts, also follow my main account @stefano@bsd.cafeThis account will be used to test the system by following many accounts and interacting to assess snac2's performance and scalability.Have a great day!