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#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.

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.

I decided to make a real-name account for my it stuff on hachyderm.io. But as they currently have manual checks for sign ups (thanks spammers!), I'm tempted even more to selfhost... (but noone then knows the instance 😕).
#selfhosting

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

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

still 🆙
#selfhost #mastoadmin #colima #docker

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

ok, really for sure this time.
i think it's going to be stable.
I think.
#mastoAdmin #selfhost #newOldimac #colima #docker

Getting a 3Gb fibre upgrade tomorrow morning from Telus! So there will probably be some downtime for internet connectivity for all the various things but it should all be back up and running by noon.
#Telus #Internet #SelfHost #wifi

this is the longest that my #selfhost instance has been online in 5 days lol. Starting to feel confident. Probably jinxing it…
#mastoadmin #colima #macos #docker #jinx

making a script to backup the postgresql and redis docker containers... so I can have this run everyday to ensure I don't lose anything if/when docker collapses.
I also noticed that the docker containers all use UTC time, which is annoying, and who knows maybe that has something to do with the instability? so i synced it to America/Vancouver
Also... I know "America" is the continent, not the country in this context. But there is more than one Vancouver on the American continent. Canada/Vancouver would be better, no?
#random #selfhost #mastoadmin #docker #colima

ok. docker backup script is solid.
it will:
1) mastodon db dumped in container and copied outside
2) redis file saved in and outside
3) both containers snapshotted and saved outside.
#selfhost #mastoadmin #colima #macos #docker #jinx

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

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

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