• ReCursing@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    There is a typo in your link, it goes to fedit.online instead of feddit.online

    Also what magazines do you have over there? I had a quick look but am on mobile and can’t remember how to find that!

    • Jerry on PieFed@feddit.onlineOP
      6·
      1 year ago

      Yeah. I noticed the typo right after I uploaded the message. I quickly edited it but I find that changes made to a message take a while to replace the original.

      I currently have 303 magazines, 301 pointing to several other KBIN and Lemmy instances. I visited several instances and manually linked to magazines that had a lot of users. Magazines from anywhere else can be added by using the global search (the search icon at the very top), not the search associated with the magazine listings, and using the full name, like @linux

      The magazines can be seen at https://feddit.online/magazines

    • HarkMahlberg@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah the Symfony Toolbar shows up at the bottom of the homepage for me. I’ve never used Symfony before, but it looks like a developer tool, not something you want running in your production environment. ;) @Jerry

        • duringoverflow@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          it is still like that. After 2 days. I actually believe that such low effort “contributions” to the fediverse are causing more harm than good.

          • majkeli@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            I was looking through that and was thinking it was just reporting on the server configuration, but nope, all .env values are right there and nicely formatted. Yeesh.

  • majkeli@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    Since you have experience, can I ask how much you expect it to cost to run? I have a couple decades in IT, an AWS cert, a great domain name, and a bit of disposable income. I’m thinking of putting one up myself.

    • Jerry on PieFed@feddit.onlineOP
      7·
      1 year ago

      The cost depends on who you use for hosting. I use Digital Ocean which is a bit more expensive than others, like Hetzner, but Digital Ocean has some additional services that make life a bit easier, so I use it.

      I also use Cloudflare for caching and protection, but it’s free for hobbyists and small businesses.

      There are some small costs for keeping snapshots. Less than a couple of dollars/month.

      At Digital Ocean, a 4 vCPU, 8GB server is $48/month. Snapshots might be a couple more dollars a month. I’m currently running KBIN on a server half this size but I will be bumping it up to the $48/month option in the next few days.

      Another incidental cost would be domain name registration.

      I can’t think of anything else you would need to pay for.

      • UnshavedYak@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        DB would be a big one, no? Not sure what Kbin is using, but DB costs tend to be meaningful as well, especially since depending on how the app is designed the usage requirements can sort of parity the app hosting requirements itself. Plus storage, but that can be more variable depending on how robust you want it to be. Ie S3 is pretty robust but it’s expensive, etc.

        • Jerry on PieFed@feddit.onlineOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          It uses PostgrSQL. I’m paying an extra $2/month to keep the database on an external drive. So far, it’s only using 151 MB of the 20 GB. I don’t think I’ll run out of space for a while. But, this weekend, the larger server I move to will come with an 80 GB drive so I don’t think I really need an external drive. Currently, the DB doesn’t cost anything extra.

          But, you reminded me, there is a cost to keeping a database backup. My server is in NYC1. I have an S3 bucket in NYC3 that will be use to hold 5 days of daily database backup, compressed. I pay $5/month for the 250 GB Digital Ocean S3 bucket, I believe.

          • UnshavedYak@kbin.social
            0·
            1 year ago

            So you’re running a local DB and backing up the external drive? Neat. What about static storage? Images/videos/etc? How are you handling backup?

            I’m interested in this space because i’m writing an experimental ActivityPub client and one of my goals is to make it “as cheap as possible” to run a micro-instance. I plan on exploiting a single directory, sqlite and file storage, that users can just rsync or backup however they wish. Cheap is tough hah.

            • Jerry on PieFed@feddit.onlineOP
              1·
              1 year ago

              I was hoping to store the images directly in an S3 bucket at Wasabi, which is what I do for Mastodon, Calckey, and Peertube. However, this is not yet supported in KBIN. I think only AWS is supported as a hard-coded option.

              I tried setting up a FUSE drive connected to Wasabi and I used a symbolic link to point public/image to it, but, alas, the Symfony framework does not support symlinks. Until external S3 is supported, I have to store the images locally. Ernest did post today that external storage for thumbnails is on the horizon. So maybe all media can be externally stored.

              Until then, I’m storing them on the local disk. This weekend I’m going to see if I can set up rclone to automatically synchronize the public/image directory to a Wasabi S3 bucket so at least it will be constantly backed up.

              When external S3 becomes an option, I’ll move the media folder to the S3 bucket and hook it up.

      • duringoverflow@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        I also use Cloudflare for caching and protection

        looks like you weren’t here the previous days. There is serious problem with cloudflare and federation since cloudflare will start blocking all the attempts of other intances trying to communicate with your instance. The browser JS validation, has to be turned off.

    • Freeman@lemmy.pub
      3·
      1 year ago

      Im curious how he worked through the docs to get it online. I tried for a day or so a week ago but could not get the service to come online. Just 500 errors galore.

    • HarkMahlberg@kbin.social
      14·
      1 year ago

      No, federation only mirrors content across instances, not user profiles. Mastodon has an account migration feature, but kbin doesn’t have that yet.

    • noodlejetski@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      you’d have to create another account with the same name over there. there’s not much point though, if you see a community over there that you’d want to subscribe, you can do that from your current account.

    • CMLVI@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I highly doubt it; it’s a separate “site”, but it would federate with existing instances (presumably). You would have to make a new account there, follow the different mags you do here, and then delete this account.

  • 0xtero@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    Ok, so what is it with people named Jerry and the need to spin up fediverse instances? (infosec.exchange, fedia.io etc admin is also Jerry)

    Seriously though - nice work!

  • Blakerboy777@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’m getting an error when I try to login with Google.

    Access blocked: Authorization Error Missing required parameter: client_id Learn more about this error If you are a developer of this app, see error details. Error 400: invalid_request

    • Jerry on PieFed@feddit.onlineOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m surprised it offer the option to sign up with Google since I don’t have that enabled. Only email address registration works now. I’ll have to play with Federated sign ups. Maybe this weekend