This is going to assume the new version is 18, and the database is called mastodon_production. Migration Stages Check Postgres pg_extension (Repack and other extensions) You can check if you used other extensions using this SQL on the old DB. NEWDB: Create Roles (per cluster level, not DB level) You’ll […]
With the release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, I’ve started to rebuild some of my VMs from 24.04 and took the opportunity to polish the proxmox VM settings. Proxmox: VM CPU Tuning Notice: The details below are about my AMD EYPC Server CPUs, but for proxmox environments with only Intel or […]
Call to action What would you do with 10U of collocation space for free? if you were me, what’s the best/most interesting/most impactful outcome for this rack space? Part 1: The Pitch In February 2025, I moved into a half rack with 20U of capacity in a closed/private and secured […]
Hey Mastodon admins,I’ve noticed lots of errors in the logs and sidekiq dead queue similar to a failure for pushrelay-mast1.your.org. These come from failed mobile/web notification services which are registered for your users… and they fail repeatively! Note: if you know who runs/ran the failing push services, maybe give them […]
Let’s answer the question… Is co-location right for you? Over 12 months ago, I made the switch from cloud VMs to dedicated co-location hosting a Proxmox cluster, and it turned out to be one of the best decisions for my specific needs. This move has allowed me to maintain predictable […]
There was a 24 hour window of submission for the Social Media Minimal Age bill.. and I decided to write something straight to the point. https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Environment_and_Communications/SocialMediaMinimumAge
TLDR: CHECKING YOUR WEB/PUMA LOGS AND SIDEKIQ DEAD QUEUE FOR S3 ReadTimeout ERRORS FOR FUN AND PROFIT!!! I recently started investigating the high bandwidth being used by my Mastodon instance, and noticed a lot of errors (similar to below) showing failures related to uploading files to my S3 provider Wasabi. […]
Edit: So to put my money where my mouth is – Right now storage is costing me around $150AUD a month – so if somebody can build a media server we can share/deploy and offer it for all of the Fediverse instances… I will give them a minimum of $3600AUD […]
Solution The solution looks to be disabling two features (TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) or GSO (Generic Segmentation Offload)) using ethtool. You can add this to your /etc/network/interfaces as a post-up command to maintain this over reboots. References
Why does Microsoft do this? When did this start? Solution: Removing the Recovery Partition Bonus: Restoring the Recovery Partition I generally don’t bother with this because i’m running VMs and take snapshots/backups.. but if you must <TBD>