Notices by Daniel Colquitt (daniel@colquitt.xyz)

@cadusilva I am sorry that you had a bad experience with Hetzner. I haven't seen any reports of particularly bad behaviour from Hetzner - do you have any links?

Your point regarding over-reliance on a single provider is well-taken. I've added a secondary backup to my mastodon stack on hardware that I control.

I’ve just finished migrating our backups & #mastodon media storage from backblaze to Hetzner. I’ve absolutely no issue with backblaze — I’ve used them for over five years & had zero problems.

My total storage has just surpassed 1TB, which makes Hetzner slightly better value. Rclone & nginx reverse proxy have made the process mostly transparent from a #sysadmin perspective.

For those interested, my current setup:

Family & personal data
——————————
Live data: 🇬🇧 (raid1)
Primary backup: 🇫🇮
Secondary backup: 🇩🇪

Mastodon
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Primary data: 🇫🇮
Backup: 🇩🇪

#mastoadmin

@cadusilva My data centre is in the Netherlands too, but I am behind a Cloudflare CDN. Not configuration changes on my end though.

@cadusilva I've figured it out. Previously I was routing my images through the S3 front end, e.g., `s3.eu-central-000.backblazeb2.com`, but it looks like Backblaze made a change to the hostname so that it is `<BUCKET NAME>s3.eu-central-000.backblazeb2.com`. I've changed my CDN to use the friendly hostname `f000.backblazeb2.com` and everything seems to work fine now.

Looks like Backblaze b2 buckets are borked at the moment (INVALID_HOST 400 errors), which means that my @Mastodon media cache isn't working. Anyone else seeing similar? Seems to be not only me (https://www.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/1iui70f/invalid_host_header_anyone_help_me_about_this/)

#mastoadmin

I’ve just completed my first billing cycle for my single-user #mastodon instance. For thise interested, here is a breakdown of the monthly costs:

:servers: VPS: £4.10
(inc. IPs, SSD, bandwidth, backups)
:s3: Object storage: £0.35
(inc. media cache, remote backups)
:s3: Transactions: £0.09
☁️ CDN: £0.00
🕸️ Domain name: £0.75
(I already own this & use it for other things, but included it here for completeness)

💰 Total: £5.29

Not a half-bad price to pay for independence & complete control of my social media network. :mastodon: :fediverse:

#mastoadmin #fediverse

I honestly can’t believe that I was today years old when I discovered https://bookshop.org. For those who don’t know, https://bookshop.org is an online bookshop that returns 30% of the cover price to your chosen local bookshop.

Even better — I discovered I new local bookshop that I had no idea existed.

#bookshop #books

This morning, we went to the newly discovered #bookshop as a family. It was *way* better than expected. They’re a social enterprise community bookshop, they run community literary events for schools, groups, kids, & adults, & they even have a proper coffee shop serving fantastic coffee! We left with a bag full of #books & information on how to become community shareholders. A fantastic place & I can’t wait to go back. https://colquitt.xyz/@daniel/113805707792990858

@webmink I can’t access the forum. Are you saying the API is returning the wrong tariff?

According to the account API, my tariff is 'E-1R-AGILE-24-10-01-D' and is valid until 2025-12-20.

@webmink 😱
I’m using Octopus Watch — I’ll have to check if their prices are correct.

@webmink ah — thanks!

@webmink it’s been down for me too. Historical data seems fine though. Future pricing also seems fine on my dashboard https://octopus.energy. Let me know if you find out what’s going on.

@Gargron @GossiTheDog Ah okay — I didn’t know. Thanks. Any idea when more stock will become available in the EU/UK?

@GossiTheDog
Same here 😢
@Gargron

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