This is the standard boring part of creating the template VM. Unsolved DHCP Issues I’ve noticed the DHCP was acting different on Ubuntu 26.04 compared to 24.04, and I’m yet to find the solution. The first boot will get a clientID of 1:<MAC> DHCP and then the second boot will […]
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Notice: Mastodon requires two kinds of cache. Sidekiq queues and home feeds, and the rails cache.Large instances should consider running two or even separate Redis servers. Working from https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/scaling/ Mastodon Server: maxmemory-policy: noeviction and appendonly yes, appendfsync everysec because we want to save the state.Cache Server: `maxmemory-policy: allkeys-lru and save […]
Notes: Prepare system Install package Notice output Edit /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options.d/heap.options Add about 50% of the memory for the JVM and the other 50% for the Apache Lucene (full text search) and OS cache.Both values should be the same… last time I checked, having a lower minimum caused a hard error starting […]
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: New Cluster sudo pg_createcluster 18 techhubproduction -d /data/18/techhubproduction — […]
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 […]
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. […]
This should federate to Mastodon.