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

Idk, you can probably ask the owner via the shop

The latter, it’s all 3D printed rackmounts

This is the first time I’ve heard about using UPS for something other than powering computers in case of a blackout. Shouldn’t the power supplies take care of the rest? Never heard of reducing wear and tear by external components.

Help yourself :) https://www.kaoskvlt.de/Kein-Gott-Kein-Staat-Kein-Kabelsalat/KAS-10011

That sounds like a good opportunity for offsite backup!

Oh cool! Wheels are definitely a good idea. I thought about a UPS but our grid is super stable and apparently they cause their own problems now and then.

Thanks!

Yeah, couldn’t resist the sticker :D

They are connected to the mini PC below. This mainboard has 4 connectors.

Yeah maybe I’ll try to fit in some faster Ethernet adapters at some point, but currently it’s mostly just the daily VM snapshots and since those are automated, the speed isn’t that important anyways. Just in case of a potential recovery.

Offsite backup at some family member’s place is planned at some point as well, but not fully thought through yet.

No, WAN is the family lan. It’s connected to one of the actual router’s ports (some Fritzbox connected to the ISP). 192.168.1 is inactive, I was just messing around with it when I got the unit.

I’m all on SSDs since I don’t need that much storage, so 2.5 is what I need anyways. There’s a 3x ZFS mirror of 1.8TB SSDs in there, 4th bay is currently empty.

K8S is a whole different approach and I find it to be a lot more complex, but you would not need virtual machines. If all your applications are running in containers anyways, you could consider it. Finding a good solution for persistent storage is probably the most important design decision.

What do you actually need to run on your server? I’d look into downsizing. A single small form factor computer or even a newer Raspi can do a lot these days.

Most of the stuff will somewhat work, but you’ll introduce side effects sooner or later by using commands that might work but are not the proper ones and alter unrelated things. At some point those will likely bite you and you have no idea where it’s coming from. I’d suggest to check at least what the commands you are copying are doing.

Oh that sucks! One would think that after that long, it’d be somewhat established.

Almost correct! 1. is just a firewall, the router is not in the rack. I wanted to have this separate from the “family lan”. 6. is a mini PC to which the drives are connected, acting as a NAS.