Tootfinder

still 🆙
#selfhost #mastoadmin #colima #docker

dare I say the #footiMac #newOldiMac combo are currently delivering snappy mastodon performance.
#mastoAdmin #selfhost

I think it is funny, ironic, nerdy, and meta (the proper literal sense) that I have maxed out the 2017 iMac by wanting to install btop while watching it be maxed out on htop.
And yet... it's still posting this, so if stuff doesn't break down now, surely it never will? Even the swap is having a moment. Ooof. I need to be nicer to my machines. lol
#newOldimac #selfhost #mastoAdmin #footiMac #docker #colima #homebrew

#Discord alternative, #Fluxer released their beta of their mobile apps today.
But what they also released was their server files, so you can now #selfhost a server, which is pretty neat.

success.
docker restart does not jeopardize anything as long as a volume is specified at runtime to preserve the data.
successfully restarted with new conf file and we're now green across the board and hopefully tuned for the slightly larger resources available from #newOldiMac
#docker #mastoAdmin #docker #colima #postgresql #selfhost

just tweaked/upped web concurrrency and max threads settings in my .env.production settings for Mastodon to give #footiMac a few more processes to handle requests and things are humming along nicely.
I think a big takeway for me on this #selfhost journey is that except on the very smallest one person and minimal followers instance, the database (and possibly redis) function should always be on a different machine or container from mastodon.
#footiMac was clearly having real trouble handling the database activity once it got busy. Even with an SSD now with two bad blocks (which may have been caused by that over-activity), it is way more stable.
#newOldiMac #docker #mastoAdmin #colima #iMac

Guys I think I really did fix it this time! #selfhost #mastoadmin
It has been solid and responsive on #newOldiMac since switching colima from Apple's vz system to qemu.

bam. Looks like #newOldiMac is back up this time using qemu instead of vz underneath colima. We'll see if this helps with stability!
#selfhost #mastoadmin

Still up!
Have now split Colima into two contexts. One for the streams and one for docker. Not sure if that is the most efficient. But it’s working!
#newOldiMac #selfhost #mastoadmin

#mastoadmin #selfhost question:
how reliable/accurate is the “tootctl media usage" command?
Can I be sure that if it says 135GB that truly is the amount of space the /live folder is using on the system?
(I am use file system storage)
thanks!

Updating #mastodon! #selfhost

........ a million years later........
update complete! v4.6.4.
#mastodon #selfhost

colima seems to be dealing with the traffic a lot better now that it's using qemu. Might also be doing diskIO better as it's using a different driver for that as well.
The mastodon client seems more responsive.
The database is already using 6.4GB of 8GB! Usually it barely got over 2.5GB before crashing.
I am forever optimistic for what I find in the morning! : )
Goodnight sweet mastonauts!
#newOldiMac #selfhost #mastoadmin

back up and running fully on v4.6
#selfhost
backing up… lol

was going to update my #selfhost to 4.6.6... then realized its disk is full.. now doing all the procrastinated-work i was supposed to do... lol

4.6.4->.5->.6 installed #selfhost

trying out #portainer to run docker on my external host and... possibly... move my redis and db containers to the external.
trying to move redis first!
the portainer interface is not bad.
#selfhost #mastoadmin #footiMac

ok. *this time* i think my #selfhost is going to be stable or at least self-recoverable. Both #footiMac and #newOldiMac are now set to periodically restart to catch any times when the become unresponsive or colima dies.
#mastoadmin