@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-02-11 22:03:31
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-02-04 18:36:39
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-02-17 06:11:35
One of the coolest features of this little guy... USB modem support! If I could get a cheap data-only plan (in Canada?! AHAHHAHAHAH) then I could use it as a little failsafe WAN connection! #footiMac #selfhost #homelab #networking
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-02-17 05:45:19
verdict: I should have got this router 2 years ago.... as the apple nerds (me) say: the DNS loopback/hairpin "just worked"!
so much fun to be had with this little beasty! tons of config options.
success!
#footiMac #selfhost #homelab #networking
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-02-17 06:09:00
testing out the connection speed. Looks good max for my Telus Fibre connection.
I toyed with the idea of getting one with a 2.5Gb class WAN port as I believe Telus is offering >1Gb connections now... but I resisted. This was only $80 and is far more feature rich than the telus router and should be just as fast if not faster thanks to better internals than the Telus router.
#footiMac #selfhost #homelab #networking
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-02-17 04:07:45
alrighty folks! time to install the new network box!
Will see if I can fully replace the Telus router (white roundish tower thing on the top shelf) with the asus router.
there will definitely be interruptions in internet to this mstdn account, as well as to the alberniweather blog.
It would be nice if it preserves my ip address, and not need a ddns update but I doubt I will be that lucky.
See you on the flip side! I will post updates from @…
#selfhost #footiMac #network #mastodon #homelab
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-12-08 20:13:30
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-02-03 16:24:10
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-12-08 20:26:30
just looking at my archive of postgresql backups over the past 2 years of my mastodon instance.
In December 2023 just shy of 1 year since spinning it up, the compressed gz file of the database was 600MB.
By Aug 2024 it was 988MB
In April 2025 it was 1500MB
Today it is 1800MB.
That is a 2 user instance. Not small!
#selfhost #footiMac #Debian #mastodon #fediverse #upgrade