Shlee

Introduction I’ve spent the last few years sitting in the Mastodon Discord, listening to the developers talk about the project.

1 Prepare system echo "vm.max_map_count=262144" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/99-elasticsearch.conf sudo sysctl --system 2 Install package sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https gnupg wget # apt-transport-https is usually already pres…

Table of Contents Migration Stages Check Postgres pg_extension (Repack and other extensions) NEWDB: New Cluster NEWDB: Create Roles (per cluster level, not DB level) NEWDB: Create empty DB OLDBD: Backup (dump) data into a folder structure Transfer backup…

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.

Table of Contents Call to action Part 1: The Pitch Part 2: What services could we host?

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.

My router and 3 servers (the top one has been removed).

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 H…

TLDR: CHECKING YOUR WEB/PUMA LOGS AND SIDEKIQ DEAD QUEUE FOR S3 ReadTimeout ERRORS FOR FUN AND PROFIT!!!

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 (2 ye…