provide a gateway to the fediverse using a Lemmy server
cross-posted from: https://lemmyfly.org/post/354030
> cross-posted from: https://lemmyfly.org/post/354024 > > > Last months server costs was the first month payed for using donations: Thank you for that ! > > There is not enough balance for the next month(s) yet. > > > > If you are using this server to browse the Fediverse, could you please help out ? > > > > Just a euro or two per month, times many of you, would be more then enough ! > > > > The donations are help by the legal fiscal host Open Collective Europe - all reimbursements are fully transparent posted on the platform and payed out from there. > > > > Thank you again for your consideration 🙏
cross-posted from: https://lemmyfly.org/post/273030
> As you might understand, running the server costs real money. At the moment this comes down to +- 11,- EUR per month. > > I would appreciate it if those who use this server to browse the fediverse would help out in sharing these costs. If every member would help out with a tiny amount, it would already be enough. > > I've created an account on opencollective. Money donated will stay on their bank account, I will upload invoices expenses of the hosting provider, domain registrar to the platform so it is fully transparent on where the money is spent. > > Thanks a lot for helping out ! > > https://opencollective.com/lemmyfly
I recently got the Q4XP and discovered Widerøe flies nice domestic routes in Norway. Perfect for a short 50min flight for example. I found widerøevirtual.online - a phpVms based VA. I liked what it offers: an overview of real life flights which you can choose to fly, helps you in creating a simbrief OFP. It seems a bit quiet here though, small group of members (which is nice I think) and you’ll have to wait on manual pirep approval. The VA seems new-ish, lets hope it grows a bit and becomes somewhat more active.
I’m also a member of klm-va.nl which is much more free: you can choose to fly real life scheduled flights (get more points for that) but you can just fly any dep-arr you like in whatever plane - and still get points for it.
I’ve also tried several VA’s based on the vamSys software - the most modern and solid build va-system I think. They’ve got some very active communities, which is also a very nice part of flying with a VA.
I’m wondering what others experiences are with flying on the sim with a virtual airline?
Nice, good to know! Have been flying the Zibo 738 mainly the last year, this might make me fly the Fenix again
Nice! I’m flying an ATR into Croatia end of august IRL, can’t wait!
My sim hanger is way too full to justify buying this one as well… it’s itching though..
14 days later, my postgres directory was 12GB. I was still on 18.1. Updated to 18.3 just now. Postgres directory was downscaled to 2.6GB !!! Thank you Lemmy dev's and contributors !!
pictrs isn’t even taking up that much space, postgres takes up most !
# du -sch volumes/*
8.0K volumes/lemmy-ui
3.4G volumes/pictrs
8.2G volumes/postgres
12G totalI also noticed the logs were growing and taking up quite some gb's. I've used truncate to make the syslog smaller and journalctl vacuum to keep that smaller
i'm trying to find documentation for this config but can't find any. Do you have a link maybe ?
thanks for your detailed how-to ! Will try this, hopefully it holds 2 more weeks I'm leaving for holidays now :)
the diskspace on the server I'm using for lemmyfly.org is getting full (it was 40GB local volume, and it's at 80% now)
I can get extra volumes at my hosting (Hetzner) but is it possible lemmy looks at different volumes for the volumes folder that contains pictrs, postgres and lemmy-ui ?
Or do I need to move the complete main lemmy folder to this other volume and run lemmy from there, leaving my system-volume unused for lemmy ?
oh it's visible because I'm admin/ mod ?
How was your landing?
actually I did delete the server (after creating a snapshot of it) a week or so ago. But this morning I wanted to check lemmyfly.org, couldn't load the page. Checking my Hetzner dashboard I noticed CPU was spiked at 200%?! It did drop again though, but apparently had last for 2-3 minutes. But prometheus was down, so no graphs apart from the hetzner ones. I doesn't relate to network traffic spikes, so I don't know what caused it. I've started the prometheus server again (that snapshot was really useful :) ) and will leave it on for a couple of months now.
current system consumption:
I might need to get an extra volume for storage, Lemmy is starting to eat up the root filesystem.. Does anyone know how I re-configure Lemmy to look at a different volume for storage ?
Pay for Sendgrid (100 / day for free is not enough) VS set up your own email server?
For own email server, do you not get flagged a lot as spam ?
Mine too I see now. You can only ban a user when they have posted something right ? There is no list for admins of all users registered ? Maybe I'll do it direct in the database..
with what purpose ? posting stuff, or some other use ?
I've set registration to Require application again, don't like this bots creating accounts.
Also I'm running into email limitations. Using the Sendgrid Free plan of 100 emails per day, but if a couple of member have email notification on, I'm reaching that 100 very quickly. How do others handle the high email traffic ?
why all these upvotes? This post is on top of my posts since yesterday.
http_response metrics are also up, using https://github.com/martin-helmich/prometheus-nginxlog-exporter
would be nice to see the numbers go up :)
Let us know your findings when you did!
i'm now looking into logging more specific http request data. Maybe https://github.com/martin-helmich/prometheus-nginxlog-exporter?
In this tutorial, I will talk about Prometheus and Grafana. You will learn to install both on CentOS/RHEL and understand how to use Prometheus and Grafana
running a lemmy instance has learned me a lot about devops already!
I love playing around with this, the lemmy instance was a great reason. lemmyfly.org doesn't have a lot of traffic yet, I think it can handle some more. Currently running on 2 vcpu/4gb ram.
After chatting to my devops colleague at work I wanted to set up a Grafana dashboard with metrics on the server. Seems it's pretty pretty doable!
- I installed prometheus node_exporter on my lemmy server
- I created a second server at my VPS. Very cheap, and don't think I'll be running the Prometheus/Grafana 24/7 so I'll just create a snapshot of it, destroy the server and re-create when wanted
- Created an internal private network so the instances can communicate without exposing ports to the public
- Installed Prometheus on the new prometheus server
- Installed Grafana
- log in to Grafana, admin:admin then change password
- Go to the Grafana home dashboard, click on + sign and click on Import. In Import via grafana.com, put the dashboard id 1860 (preset for all prometheus node_exporter metrics) and click on Load.
- Done!
Last 2 hours in the garden with a beer on the side, WFH FTW
I use namecheap’s email service privateemail since a couple of years. Google workspace was great, but don’t need the other features anymore and this is fifth of the price https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email/
or the community you are posting to doesn't allow Undetermined language, and that's what you've selected. There is no error handling for that yet
This tutorial will show you how to redirect a www URL to non-www, e.g. www.example.com to example.com, with Nginx on CentOS 7.
cross-posted from: https://lemmyfly.org/post/2382
> thanks to @Hopfgeist@feddit.de for noticing www.lemmyfly.org was not secured and not pointing to the lemmy instance.
>
> Checking the lemmy ansible files I saw your nginx configuration file is located in /etc/nginx/sites-available/[sitename].conf
>
> To add a redirect for your www.[sitename, add:
> (lemmyfly.org example)
> > server { > server_name www.lemmyfly.org; > return 301 $scheme://lemmyfly.org$request_uri; > } >
> check your config with sudo nginx -t
>
> restart nginx: sudo systemctl restart nginx
Is it possible applications go missing? I received an email yesterday about a request and 2 hours ago, but can’t find them in the applications overview, neither unread nor all
When the admin of a instance wants to stop the server (for example costs are running too high) but your communities are active and you don’t want them to die along with it, is it possible to migrate the communities to another instance?
seems not scaleable. I thought you could subscribe at one instance, then browse communities from all instances and read and comment no matter if your instance has it in their Allowed list or not ? (apart from the ones in Blocked)
I've subscribed on my new instance lemmyfly.org to !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml. One post (by me) on there (postfix issues, possible to use sendgrid?) has 4 comments. But when I click on that post from my own server timeline, it shows an earlier state of the post with 0 comments.
Maybe I don't understand the federation well enough yet, but shouldn't the state of a post be similar no matter from which instance you look at it ?
edit: I see different comments on this post when looking at it direct on lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support and on https://lemmyfly.org/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
My own comment posted from lemmyfly.org, does not show under this post at lemmy.ml, only on my own instance ? This is why I edit the main post to write this. Is it supposed to work like this ?