You can check every website there via the domain.

I’m really not sure about that being inexpensive. The files will grow and the list of people to follow usually grows as well. This just doesn’t scale well.

I follow 700 people on Mastodon. That’s 700 requests every interval. With 100-10000 posts or possibly millions of interactions in each file.

Of course you can do stuff like pagination or something like that. But some people follow 10000 accounts and want to have their timeline updated in short in intervals.

Pulling like this is usually used when the author can’t sent you something directly and it works in RSS Feeds. But most people don’t follow hundreds of RSS feeds. Which reminds me that every mastodon profile offers an RSS feed - you can already do what you described with an RSS reader.

But only once. If an account doesn’t post/interact for a year, it doesn’t cause any traffic. With your approach, I constantly need to pull that account’s profile to see if something new showed up.

So I have to constantly check all files from everyone I follow for new entries in order to have a working timeline?

I can open the website. What exactly are you trying to achieve? Are you in some app?

The reason is easy: one likes the fediverse, wants to contribute for it and wants to enabled people to use it even if they can’t afford to pay for it.

On a smaller scale, that’s not much of a problem. I’m glad I can host for some people who don’t have money at all. Some of the others donate and some don’t and that’s fine as well.

“Stranglehold” lmao. They invented the threadiverse and they are welcoming other implementations like mbin and piefed. That’s the opposite of a stranglehold.

Go cancel yourself

Solarpunks can have a little downtime, as a treat

No, not a media server. But it could be with the NAS and just mount a big NAS dataset into one of the servers.

I spent a lot of time automating the setup of the Proxmox nodes with an Ansible role. It install packages, sets up exporters for monitoring, makes some Proxmox tweaks and, most important, creates the file system structures for replication and high availability. The NAS runs TrueNAS which is mostly in the default configuration, similar for the OPNsense firewall.

That’s the operating system site of things. The VMs with the Docker services (Nextcloud, Bookstack, Calibre Web Automated, Authentik, Prometheus Stack with Grafana, this Lemmy instance, Gitea and some more) have just been transfered from the old server.

The Lenovo boxes have single 480GB disks (probably the thing I need to upgrade somewhat soon). Backups go to the NAS which has a 3 x 1,8 TB ZFS mirror (RAID 1 basically) in the JBOD.

Looking for something specific? Lenovos have 4C/8T, 32GB RAM and an extra SSD for the virtual drives. The whole thing is idling just below 50W.

Each box was around 100-150€ plus some drives, 3D material/energy was 15€ and my friend’s bar tab, rails/screws/blinds were around 40€ in total. Bought everything second hand with low price and power consumption in mind.

They’re all from printables, e.g. https://www.printables.com/model/1040412-lenovo-thinkcentre-tiny-m720qm715qm920q-10-rack-mo

Got them printed by a friend except for the white blinds and the cable brush.

It’s the 2C4. I’m not using it for actual routing but for subnetting and firewall basically and I get a little over 500 Mbit/s through it.

Thanks! My wife found out somehow, most home improvement stores here have specific paint for it but this one is two component stuff from Epodex. Painting is easy, most of the work is preparing the underground.

Thanks a lot!

Mostly finished the small bathroom. Replaced floor tiling because the old ones became loose, painted the wall tiles because they were ugly, painted the rest of the walls (fake wood) to match the rest. Removing silicone was by far the most bothersome task.

Need to redo some of the silicone and add wood strips where the tiles meet the fake wood plus some little tasks here and there but it’s usable again.

It’s this MB/CPU: https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/J5005-ITX/index.asp#Specification

The JBOD has SATA connectors for each SSD, it’s 3 1,8TB SSDs in ZFS mirror. I tested write speed but since it’s all Gbit LAN that’s the bottleneck for r/w and I didn’t bother any further with theoretical r/w. Currently there’s not much writing except for daily backup tasks from the Proxmox Nodes.

I’ve already had the JBOD and was basically just looking for something small and low power to run it. I’m not sure what the “normal” tower setup would be, I didn’t find too much for 10" racks. It currently being a mini PC with the case being half open and not properly fixed in the rack is certainly not ideal, I found some Mini ITX rackmount STLs, but the power supply needs some extra space etc.

Do you have a server and a domain already?

Wait, I thought those were called spaces. Have I been calling them wrong all the time?