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Hetzner prices have skyrocketed (up to 3x); how will this affect your Fediverse server? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] 33 points 1 month ago (1 child)

There was a big price increase a month or two ago that affected existing servers. I think this is recognizing that Hetzner just can’t acquire new servers (particularly memory) at anywhere close to what they could before. RAM prices are up about 400% in the past year and rising, and I think even server chassis and CPUs are being largely soaked up by the mesoscale datacenter builds.

Net net, this sucks. And my expectation is that Hetzner will still be the cheapest game in town by about the same percentages as before. It the costs keep going up, I think we will see the fediverse starting to struggle.

Between the absolute crush of bot registrations and the spiraling costs, I have been contemplating moving to a required donation for new accounts.

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    Federation issue and image issue should be fixed now. (infosec.pub)
     

    Federation broke after I upgraded to lemmy 0.19.19 (I tend to apply security updates relatively fast). Unfortunately, that broke federation due to some issues in the release. The issue is described here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6581 - they've not released a fixed version yet, but that was easy enough to sort out manually.

    There was also an image issue. I don't know what happened there, but imagemagick was consistently failing - once I restarted the containers, that problem seems to have gone away. I don't know if it will return or was something held over from the update - perhaps an unclean restart. I'll keep an eye on it, but let me know if you see it again.

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    [–] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    ok, I found the problem. The latest version of lemmy required a change to the web server config, which I did, however I neglected to restart the web server so that config change could take effect. D'oh. amateur hour. I'm very sorry about that.

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    • Infosec.pub destroys image quality in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub
    [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    I am not 100% sure why yet, but the process that scales images for storage was repeatedly dying since I applied the latest lemmy update. I just restarted things and it's working now, but I am not sure if it will crash again or if it was a one off due to something not getting restarted correctly after the update - I'll keep an eye on it.

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    [–] [S] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Exactly. I’ve worked in the security field for a long long time and have come to realize it’s viewed by most companies as a utility like power and water and trash pick up. If it’s not working, people notice and get quite angry, and if it is working, they get mad at how much it costs.

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    • Anonymous access to infosec.pub is disabled temporarily in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub
    [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago

    I think the original implementation of that setting disabled public access AND disabled federation, however it appears the ability to disable federation was subsequently split into a different setting. (I have private mode turned on and we are still communicating across instances, so I know federation is still working). I am not sure that is what you were referring to, though...

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    Upgrade complete. Infosec.pub downtime/upgrade (infosec.pub)
    submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [M] to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub
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    Hi all. Lemmy 0.19.9 released today and it has some fixes I want to get in place sooner rather than later. I will be installing the upgrade in about an hour. The downtime should be minimal, but it’s also possible it goes horribly wrong and I have to run a recovery.

    Edit: the upgrade is complete. It was quite painless.

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    infosec.pub downtime - December 14 (infosec.pub)
     

    The following instances will be offline briefly on Saturday, December 14 from 9am ET / 2pm UTC for approxmately 10 minutes: infosec.exchange infosec.town infosec.pub pixel.infosec.exchange books.infosec.exchange matrix/element.infosec.exchange relay.infosec.exchange meetup.infosec.exchange video.infosec.exchange infosec.press infosec.place fedia.io fedia.social elk,.infosec.exchange infosec.space convo.casa

    The servers supporting these instances require a reboot. The Dell servers these instances run on take a very long time to boot, so I am estimating 10 minutes of downtime. It could be more, could be less.

    We use live patches to minimize reboots needed for patching, however Ubuntu only provides livepatch support for a year, which is how long most of these systems have been running for.

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