Hmmmm upgrade my digital ocean ubuntu server or just blow it away and spin up a new one.
I think I realized my server was doing way less then it used to.
@stefan Is there a vuln, or are you just being responsible?
@agocs I'm always worried that when I upgrade I will break something.
@stefan @agocs I always do the LTS and then burn it down when support ends instead of upgrading. I'm just glad that the lifecycle is up to 10yrs now. 😁
@stefan new one
@reconbot think I might upgrade... break it in the process and then scrap it. I've already rebooted and it's taking a strange amount of time to reboot
@stefan I have no clue what you're talking about, but I really appreciate what you do 😜
@MeidasGmaOG luckily this instance is hosted by real system admins at https://cloudplane.org and I just pay for it. But I am a developer and do mess around on my own time.
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@stefan ok I'll check it out tomorrow. I'm caught up in the Eagles game right now lol
@stefan I'm finding installation is not a walk in the park. Ningx instead of Apache, postgres instead of MySQL ..and then add in Ruby. Ughh
@mlivolsi yeah I would never try and run mastodon.
@mlivolsi I mostly use my server for Twitter bots. Before they all got banned.
@stefan I finally got it running. I'm not really sure why I'm doing this *lol*. I've got registrations turned off. Back in the late 90's I ran a chat site with 50K users and it was a beast to moderate and ate up all my time, so I still have PTSD over that experience. *ha*. right now , it's pretty zippy.. not bad for a $200 server and $100 worth of ssd.
@mlivolsi I'm sure you learned a lot!