romanFeb 5
do you run your own #activitypub instance?
yes, for myself and other people
10%
yes, just for myself
26.7%
no, but maybe in the future
31.7%
no
31.7%
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Show threadroman
if you're running your own instance, i'd love to hear about it.
what software are you using? #mastodon? #gotosocial? #snac2? something else?
what hardware? please share whatever you find interesting about your setup. thank you ❤️
Feb 5 at 8:27pmWeb
Show threadanimonéFeb 5
Fellow openbsd snac user here! While I still use my mastodon.social account as my main for reading, self-hosting is certainly the future. Can confirm to snac being very lean, and loading blazingly fast on even the slowest connections.

CC: @[email protected]
Show threadPaul Wilde    Feb 5

@hi ah, I question I just cannot resist!

I have my own instances of #Gotosocial, #snac2, and... #honk, all for my own use.

All running as jails on a FreeBSD box with an 8 core Ryzen 7 and 32GB memory, but those 3 jails, plus a couple of others only really utilise about 4-5GB.

Show threadralf g.Feb 5

@hi I love fedi meta talk 😀
As a Rails dev I started with #Mastodon (I‘m used to run Rails apps). It‘s great, but too much for my needs.

Now I have a #GotoSocial and a #snac2. I like them both, but GTS having a global timeline to read the federated stuff I feed via API into the instance with some scripts made it the primary instance for now.

Show threadamdFeb 6

@hi running GTS on a little VM on some old hardware I already had.

It’s super easy to maintain and so reliable. Highly recommended.

Show threadEldeberenFeb 8
@hi I run Pleroma, bare-metal on an Odroid N2+ that is also my NAS :)
Show threadFlaki19h ago

@hi I run a slightly modded standard Mastodon instance (mostly just adjust the post length). It runs in Docker on a dedicated Debian VM along a bunch of other services.

All my services run on my home server, but I have a cheap VPS to act as an "exit node", so I get static IP without dealing with the dynamic IP shenanigans or relying on Cloudflare/Tailscale etc.

Show threadroman19h ago
nice setup! what happens if your home server or link is down?

i couldn't figure out yet what to do if my #snac2 instance goes down...
Show threadFlaki19h ago

@hi this :)
https://xkcd.com/303/

If it's a small downtime, fedi, just like email "catches up", I had a few hours/a day of downtime here & there, I don't care/mind much to be honest (but it's rare).

Now that I have the "cottage" I have unlimited 4G so I should set up a failover, but unless DDoSed deliberately, issues are so infrequent that I don't really bother (and since this is a personal instance, the only person to upset here is me :) )

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Show threadroman18h ago
@[email protected] cool! i think i should just relax too...
Show threadsilverwizard19h ago
@hi I have a medium sized Vultr server I host several things on. And I use it for #Friendica hosting. I've rarely had ram issues, sometimes had CPU issues, and disk has always been a problem - but I've been strict about keeping external attachments and posts and it has been ok.
Show threadroman18h ago
@[email protected] openbsd?
Show threadsilverwizard17h ago
@hi Sadly it's running on Devuan - because httpd wont do rewriting and I already had a linux server for some tools that refuse to install without docker and that was easier than installing nginx and httpd in parallel