I'm off to bed while James continues! The backup transfer should complete by around 1AM, then the real migration and standup of the new server will take place.
If all goes super smooth, things might be up and running before I wake up around 8AM... or we might not. Fingers Crossed for smooth sailing and next updates in the morning!
The 130GB backup has completed and is now being transferred to the new server. #SocialBC #MastoAdmin #ServerAdmin #BC #DigitalSovereignty
The #SocialBC migration has begun!
Backup is generating.
Updated the migration page... https://socialbc.org/socialbc/migration.html
And just a little nervous... a big moment for our little Society of Open Social Servers of British Columbia experiment!!
So there's a security update for Mastodon. I don't really feel like it, but I'm waiting for my next load to be ready and I'm bored. So, fine. I guess I'll update my instance. 😤
Anyway, if I disappear, that's what happened.
How much more storage do you think will be needed for all of the servers to have copies of all of the posts? Maybe that will make the costs much higher for some of the small/medium size servers? I wonder how many Mastodon servers keep every post forever vs keeping something like a couple of years of posts
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Servers #Storage #Hosting #SelfHosting #ServerAdmin #ServerAdmins
@homegrown
RE: social.growyourown.services/us…
Performed a migration of my biggest client's biggest website to a new server, and the performance improvement is shocking. It's a beast of a #WordPress site.
Old server had MariaDB 5.5 and now we're on MariaDB 11.4. Plugin updates went from like 45 seconds to 2-3 seconds each.
Absolutely incredible. And the migration went pretty smoothly. 😎
My little :gotosocial: server was running short of space, so I thought remote media cache gone too big. Turns out, old server logs were bigger :blobcatroll:
Reclaimed 30 GB of space in a blink, yay :blobcathappy:
I've just installed OpenCloud, and it's pretty good. A new self hosted open source cloud sync server. It's still lacking features and a bit basic, but the backend is written in Go, and the front in Vue / Typescript, so it's really light and snappy - compared to similar apps written with PHP.
https://opencloud.eu/en/features
I have it running alongside Nextcloud, and haven't decided yet if I'm replacing it. Though, the reason I went looking for alternatives anyway, is because Nextcloud has been feeling more and more bloated and sluggish.
#webapps #selfhosting #serveradmin #cloud #sync #opensource #digitalsovereignty #opencloud
I'm having one of those "it's always #DNS" moments. Yesterday I suddenly stopped being able to access my self hosted services that live on subdomains. If I turn off Wi-Fi on my phone I can access them from the Internet no problem.
I think I need to set up my router's DNS server to send each subdomain to the reverse proxy server individually.
The main question is, "why was this working fine until now?"
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Hmm... The API for my AI slop browser extension can't connect to the database... Probably screwed something up in my database's #systemd service file, because nothing else has changed for a while.
The extension still works for the user's own reports, but they won't make it back to the database or be shared with other users.
Will debug when I'm home.
I want to mention Continuwuity Matrix homeserver, which I've just installed to replace Synapse. It's still in beta, with v0.5 just released, but which does feel stable and quite close to production ready.
Matrix is something I've wanted to get into, and a year or whatever ago, I tried Dendrite, but homeserver projects tend to get abandoned, so I ended up with Synapse anyway, like most people do. But then I didn't do anything with it.
Continuwuity is written in Rust, and is a hard fork of a hard fork, and in active development. As a single user, I prefer something like this running, and hope to see this project evolve into its own thing, and be important.
I think it's a project worth trying, or at least keeping an eye on.
https://continuwuity.org
https://forgejo.ellis.link/continuwuation/continuwuity
#homeserver #matrix #continuwuity #opensource #serveradmin #sysadmin #selfhost #selfhosting
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Server admin and my ADHD brain: I wanted both Apache and Nginx running together on the same server. So I put Haproxy, a load balancer, in front of them, which passed on the request to either depending on the domain name.
It was running fine, but then I started wondering why I was using Nginx anyway, just for reverse proxying. So, I decided to swap Nginx for Caddy. Something I had heard of, but I hadn't known how easy and efficient it was for that exact use.
Once I had Caddy running, I then started to wonder why I was bothering to have Haproxy in front, when I could just have Caddy in front as a reverse proxy, and pass php sites to Apache.
Since Caddy has auto https, I figured I could just let Apache serve the http files to Caddy, and let Caddy handle the SSL/TLS termination.
So I did that, and had to edit each virtualhost file - also removing all of the https stuff, then the mod rewrite stuff also, so that it didn't get stuck in a loop.
It did work, but there were some issue. I could have put my mind to working those out, but instead I wondered if I even really needed Apache. So I tried setting up serving static files with Caddy using php-fpm - but really unsure if it would be able to handle the complexities without directives. But it worked just fine without any messing around. So I removed Apache as well, somehow ending up with just Caddy.
Well that was a journey....
#webdev #adhd #server #webserver #serveradmin #caddy #apache #nginx
We have blocked genart.social due to promoting and pushing for AI Art.
We much prefer our Art to be Genuine or Generative.
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Software updates done. Now I can think about going to bed.
Hey, all! Anyone hearing this who is a mastodon or fediverse server admin? (Not single user instance) I'd love to be able to talk to you about your experiences! Looking to start one myself (along with some others). Please let me know if I can pick your brain. (Please boost if so inclined.)
Should I be suspicious of all these requests that say they're on Android and using Safari? 🙃 or is that like a thing that people can do now? or I guess it looks like search bots but Bing was supposed to be blocked 🤨 (because they use the same bot for search indexing and AI scraping)
#askFedi #webHosting #serverAdmin #botBlocking #botScrapers #aiScrapers
edit: I'm aware people can change their user agents to scrape, that's why I'm suspicious of these ones bc why else would they be changed to this
I finally got my mastodon-behind-wireguard instance running!
It seems okay so far, but there are a couple of issues that I'm concerned about. Chief among them is that it may be leaking my home IP address. I need to verify whether or not that's true, and if so, fix it.
Anyway, feel free to say hello over at @bruce@mstdn.heerssen.net
