On multiple occasions I've listened to instance admins speak about high S3 costs. The sheer amount of data absolutely balloons the more activity your server sees, I get it.
What I don't get is whether there's some unknown fedi ethical reason everybody insists on setting up an S3 cache (followed immediately by complaining about it).
Y'all want to know what the rest of the web does? Hosts their own uploaded media, and links out to the rest...
It seems there's even some delay on my powerful instance, but only for some minutes or so. I'm deducing this based on the notification flood. Or then the issues are all round, not sure which way. Even #MastodonSocial struggling? #Eurovision causes quite a heavy server load. #MastoAdmin#Servers#Instances#MastodonInstance#SysAdmin
My #DNS hosting provider is having a major issue with #DNSSEC, so all of my domains are down. :blobcateyes:
Sigh. Removed DS records. All should be back up and running in 24h or so. Some are already back up and running.
Yes, I will re-enable DNSSEC as soon as stuff is back up.
Yes, this is a serious consideration for anyone thinking about to enabling DNSSEC.
Yes, I do hope one day this will get solved better and DNSSEC will not be so brittle.
Is there any tutorial on how to separate Sidekiq and PostgreSQL to another servers?
I have currently them on the same machine but it would give me more peace of mind in the next big event to have them separated for performance. #MastoAdmin#SysAdmin#Servers
I know this is a hot topic and I don't want to be guilty of bike shedding, but boy do I wish the #fedora#centos#redhat installer would not create a separate home partition when I select automated partitioning. #Debian asks, rh just assumes this is 'correct'. Why? What advantages does this have, really? #linux#sysadmin#devops
Metalhead.club currently loses about 6 % to 9 % active users per month.
Well, it's no surprise that users lose interest, especially if they registered during one of the user waves and just wanted to check out what this Mastodon or Fediverse thing is.
Nevertheless it's sometimes a bit sad to see the numbers drop ;)
But of course I'm still happy to host this place for you - even if it'd be just 100 users. 😉
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
RAID5 is not a backup.
I haven't said it enough times, but I hope someone who needs it will get this message before it's too late.
Someone who has had to troubleshoot 3 failed RAID5's in the last week in his dayjob
Anyone else using #obsidian for notes or documentation? I've been toying with it personally and tuning up some ideas for my next term starting this week. What plugins have you found useful as an IT professional?
I'm a solo #sysadmin with a fallback #msp. Agent facing documentation in my ITSM is a process (rightfully so) to edit and update, but is slow to search if I can't find it straight away.
Dites les mastonautes qui font du #SysAdmin chez elleux, j'ai une question. Pour les services que j'héberge sur mon VPS, j'aimerais gérer plus proprement les secrets (genre mdp de BDD) que de les avoir dans les fichiers de conf.
Je pensais regarder un truc à la HashiCorp Vault , mais en plus léger. Vous avez des recommandations ?
Je me disais que je pourrais injecter le tout avec la CLI de bitwarden aussi, quand je démarre mais j'ai un problème de poule et d'oeuf pour la master passphrase.
Hey #DevOps#SysAdmin folks, if one already has an on-prem self-hosted #BitBucket instance, what would be the simplest, sanest on-prem / self-hostable CI/CD system to deploy along with it? :blobcateyes:
Asking for a friend. The friend is me. :blobcatcoffee:
Yes, I know of GitLab, Gitea, and so on — I am stuck with BitBucket on this one, so I am asking specifically about ways to get a CI/CD pipeline thingamabob working with the BitBucket instance I have.
I’m looking to make a career change from retail sales. Investigating my options. Seeing that there’s usually a minimum requirement of some jobs training.
I’d like to avoid going back to school for a four year degree, if it can be avoided. Do you see people being hired with their only training being these boot camps or technical degrees I’m seeing some places? Should I just consider a 4 year degree as cost of entry here?
I have always used systemd processes inside /etc/systemd/system/. But what are /lib/systemd/system/ processes for and should I still have processes under /etc/systemd/system/ for the same things? It seems if I remove mastodon-web etc. under /etc/systemd/system/ everything goes awry. Yes, daemon-reload has been run and processes are in place. Can someone explain this bit to me? #MastoAdmin#SysAdmin#Linux
My Python script that scans /var/log/mail.log for abnormalities failed in Debian 12. Upon reading the documentation, I come across this from Debian Wiki 🤡 Systemd is truly pain in the butt. Now I have choices here: A) update my script to use systemd journals to scan logs. B) Install rsyslogd and reconfigure old behavior. Three is 3rd choice go back to FreeBSD or Alpine. But that is too much work. LOL. #debian#linux#devops#sysadmin#opensource
The only file system I trust to keep my backups reliably is ZFS. Anything else is just gambling in my book. So when someone suggests Btrfs, my answer is always Noop, not under my watch. #linux#sysadmin#unix#zfs#freebsd
v1.0 then:
“Perl is kind of designed to make #awk and #sed semi-obsolete […] The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).” https://github.com/Perl/perl5/releases/tag/perl-1.0
Looking for a way to run a single command as user "www" on #FreeBSD.
Roundcube uses doveadm to compute password hashes, but the www user defaults to the nologin shell and /nonexistent home directory. I really, REALLY don't want to change that.
Anyone have something clever to let me run just this one command as www? #sysadmin
[edit to add: Roundcube is a web app. It runs as user www. I can't have another run the command as www: www needs to execute the process. www can't run sudo or doas without the sort of something that would let www run doveadm.]