Mastodawn

Ah, the noble quest of repurposing a dusty, old gaming PC into a "homelab," because nothing screams cutting-edge server tech like a machine once dedicated to shooting virtual enemies. 🎮🔫 Our hero bravely battles #procrastination, only to discover that buying hard drives and transferring files isn't exactly rocket science. 🚀💾
https://bryananthonio.com/blog/my-homelab-setup/ #repurposingPC #homelab #gamingtech #serverupgrade #DIYtech #HackerNews #ngated

My Homelab Setup

How I repurposed my old gaming PC to set up a home server for data storage, backups, and self-hosted apps.

Bryan Anthonio

Murteza Yesil Dec 13

Edmontonian Social is back up 🎉 And I learned a lesson or two during this adventure 🤦‍♂️
#EdmontonianSocial #ServerOutage #ServerUpgrade #GoneWrong

N-gated Hacker News Oct 5

In today's thrilling episode of "My Homelab Adventure", our hero embarks on a brave quest to upgrade their basement from a "dormant dust collector" to the "ultimate IT shrine," all while ensuring their electricity bill hits the stratosphere 🚀⚡️. As if the world needed another server collection that screams, "I have no social life!" 🙄💾
https://cweagans.net/2025/09/leveling-up-my-homelab/ #HomelabAdventure #ITShine #ServerUpgrade #TechJourney #GeekLife #HackerNews #ngated

Leveling Up My Homelab

How I rebuilt my homelab into a reliable, Kubernetes-powered system for real workloads, automation, and growth—starting from a simple rack and NAS.

Cameron Eagans

kgadams Feb 14, 2025

#ubergeekkellysworld #plannedoutage #serverupgrade #ups #rackmount

https://www.kgadams.net/sitenews/planned-outage-saturday-february-15

Planned outage: Saturday, February 15

I will be bringing down my blog server on Saturday to re-organize my server rack to fit in a new rack-mounted UPS. I am not setting a specific time, but hopefully no more than two or three hours sometime in the afternoon. I'll update this post when the outage is complete.

Ubergeek Kelly's World- Life, technology, science, rants

Christian Feb 2, 2025

🚀 **Big Upgrade for the relay.uggs.io Relay!** 🐘⚡

Good news, Mastodon admins! Our relay just got a **massive performance boost** to keep your federation fast & smooth! 💨

🔥 **What’s new?**
✅ **💾 32GB RAM & 16 cores** – More power, better performance!
✅ **⚡ SSD-powered** – Lightning-fast response times.
✅ **🛢️ PostgreSQL & Redis** – Better backend, faster caching!
✅ **🚀 Caddy with HTTP/3** – Future-proof & blazing fast!
✅ **🔓 Open registrations** – New instances welcome!
✅ **⚠️ Inactives get removed** – High-quality relaying only!

➡️ Join now: https://relay.uggs.io/

💡 Running a Mastodon instance? Connect now & level up your federation! 🌍
📩 Need help? Ping [@chris](https://social.uggs.io/@chris)!

#Mastodon #Fediverse #ActivityPub #MastoAdmin #FediRelay #Decentralized #SelfHosting #OpenSource #Privacy #MastodonRelay #ServerUpgrade #relay #relayserver #MastoAdmin #selfhosting #selfhosted

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connectop.us server admin Nov 7, 2023

We have made it through the #ServerUpgrade to #Mastodon 4.2.1. It took a total of 50 min to get everything prepared, backups made, and new things running. Currently the search index is rebuilding so things may be a bit slow and search may not work as well until that process completes.
#ServerStats #InstanceStats #InstanceAdmin

FinchHaven sfba Sep 24, 2023

#BREAKING:

Hello #SFBA!

It's great to see all the great features in Mastodon 4.2. This is a substantial upgrade, and we're excited to announce we're performing the upgrade on Thursday, September 28th! We aren't expecting down time, but as with all upgrades it's possible there will be some service interruptions starting at 8:00 PM.

You can learn more about this update from the official Mastodon blog:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/09/mastodon-4.2/

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #ServerUpgrade #OptInFullTextSearch #FullTextSearch

Mastodon 4.2

In this massive update we've added search and removed friction. What's not to love?

Mastodon Blog

SFBA Announcements Sep 24, 2023

Hello #SFBA!
It's great to see all the great features in Mastodon 4.2. This is a substantial upgrade, and we're excited to announce we're performing the upgrade on Thursday, September 28th! We arn't expecting down time, but as with all upgrades it's possible there will be some service interruptions starting at 8:00 PM.

You can learn more about this update from the mastodon blog: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/09/mastodon-4.2/

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #ServerUpgrade #OptInFullTextSearch #FullTextSearch

Mastodon 4.2

In this massive update we've added search and removed friction. What's not to love?

Mastodon Blog

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Jul 27, 2023

These questions have been answered :)

Please boost of visibility if you can't answer these questions. #boostsappreciated

So, here's my #homelab / #selfhosting #question:

I've set my sights on an eBay listing for a #Dell #PowerEdge R720 w/ 2x Xeon E5-2643's, 96 GB of PC3-10600R RAM, and 8x 3.5" HDD bays, all for just under $300. (Supposedly 3.5" bays, a bit confused on this point as their listing disagrees with the title – I've messaged the seller for clarification.)

My hope is to just drop the TrueNAS drives from the original machine "as-is" into the server and hopefully at the worst have to do some boot repair.

Anyway, the actual questions are:

I know next to nothing about actual server equipment – is this plan rotten from the beginning?
Is this server a decent "starting point" for a home lab that's graduating off consumer grade hardware?
Will I need much of anything else in addition to the blade itself??

#selfhosted #server #serverupgrade #nas #askfedi #askmastodon #askadmins

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boop Jul 24, 2023

Happy to report that the upgrade for the https://india.goonj.xyz Mastodon instance has completed. Everything seems to have gone smoothly. Server seems snappier. Please report if you see any issues.

#mastindia #serverupgrade @mastodonindians #TwitterX

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