
mesamunefire@piefed.social
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- Comment on What is your self hosted power draw? 3 weeks ago:
5 w for the machine. I think the router is 20w.
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 weeks ago:
Got meshtastic once a day doing a weather report. Its very unique to my area. Its just a python script.
Ive got a script that syncs my crosspoint books and bookwyrm. Its just a python script.
Ai honeypot. It works really well. Guess what python script.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (2 October 2026) 5 weeks ago:
The issue is even Linux is having AI within it now…
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (2 October 2026) 5 weeks ago:
I cant believe my raspberry pis are going up in price! and pis are getting more expensive!
- Comment on how do you manage your server? 5 weeks ago:
A mix of prayer and bash scripts.
- Comment on how do you manage your server? 5 weeks ago:
Hell yeah
- Comment on Laser is a new, modern CD ripper for Linux - OMG! Ubuntu 1 month ago:
Thats the one I use too. Its very easy to use.
- Comment on Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils - OMG! Ubuntu 1 month ago:
Plus its not 1-1 so this is going to fry some bash scripts and install scripts. At work we had to stop using Ubuntu because of a couple of bad installs via this change. Debian is just as good. Its too bad.
I have no opinions on the rewrite, but I wish they made a flavor or something just for this.
- Comment on Being a fan of something without ever interacting with the fanbase 2 months ago:
Right?
- Comment on Being a fan of something without ever interacting with the fanbase 2 months ago:
Im sure undertale is a great game with no controversy.
- Comment on Finally happish with my all-in-one homelab (20+ services and way too much tinkering) 3 months ago:
Why is this labeled ai?
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 11 months ago:
Starbucks payments sure did.
Mostly at work. All our stuff was on Azure, so when it went down….I kinda just stood around for the day. It was up/down the entire day. So I went for a coffee lol.
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 11 months ago:
Cache-ing is a hard problem to solve. For MANY years cloudflare was the cheapest and easiest way to solve the issue.
But the same people that started cloudflare have moved on or passed away. Now its just another corp. So yeah we are going to get downtime. In the corporate world, its the standard so no one is going to move off it.
…unless it keeps going down consistently.
For those who are in the know, does memcache work with lemmy/piefed? What is a good Cache for modern day systems?
- Comment on Cloudflare is down this morning 11 months ago:
So far this year its been:
1. AWS was massively down
2. Azure was down a week later
3. Cloudflare down multiple times this yearThats the ones that affect stuff at work. Fun times.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 year ago:
I love using it at work. Its a great tool to get everything up and running kinda like ansible. Paired with containerization it can make applications more “standard” and easy to spin back up.
That being said, for a home server, it feels like overkill. I dont need my resources spread out so far. I dont want to keep updating my kub and container setup with each new iteration. Its just not fun.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 year ago:
…ok so Im lying about my system for…some reason?
Synapse looks like its using 200M right now. It jumps to 1 GB when being heavily used, but I only use it for piefed and a couple of other local rooms. Honestly its not doing so much for us so we were thinking of getting rid of it. Its irritating to keep having to set up new devices and no one is really using it.
Peertube is much bigger running around 500MB just doing its thing.
Its a single family instance…you ok?
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- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 year ago:
Welp OP did ask how we set it up. And for a family instance its good enough. The ram was extra that came with the comp. I have other things to do than optimize my family home server. There’s no latency at all already.
It spikes when peertube videos are uploaded and transcoded + matrix sometimes. Have a good night!
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 year ago:
Freshrss. Sips resources.
The dd I do when I want. I have a script I tested a while back. The machine won’t be on yeah. Its just a small image with the software.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 year ago:
Couple of custom bash scripts for the backups. Ive used amsible at work. Its awesome, but my own stuff doesn’t require any robustness.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 year ago:
Hahaha that’s funny. I hope your not serous.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 year ago:
Al my services run on bare metal because its easy. And the backups work. It heavily simplifies the work and I dont have to worry about things like a virtual router, using more cpu just to keep the container…contained and running. Plus a VERY tiny system can run:
- Peertube
- GoToSocial + client
- RSS
- search engine
- A number of custom sites
- backups
- Matrix server/client
- and a whole lot more
Without a single docker container. Its using around 10-20% of the RAM and doing a dd once in a while keeps everything as is. Its been 4 years-ish and has been working great. I used to over-complicate everything with docker + docker compose but I would have to keep up with the underlining changes ALL THE TIME. It sucked, and its not something I care about on my weekends.
I use docker, kub, etc…etc… all at work. And its great when you have the resources + coworkers that keep things up to date. But I just want to relax when I get home. And its not the end of the world if any of them go down.