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Wed 22 Nov 2023 9:08AM

Migrating to a smaller spec machine

PP Pirate Praveen Public Seen by 21

Currently we have a hetzner dedicated server with AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor, 64 GB ram and 2x2TB disks in software raid. This costs us around 3000 rupees per month.

I think moving to a smaller server would save costs as we don't really need this big a server.

One option I can suggest is Infomaniak public cloud, which is running on Open Stack. They already sponsor DebConf, fasttrack.debian.net. git.fosscommunity.in and is a good, responsible and employee owned company.

https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/public-cloud

Migrating to a cloud vm makes backups/migration easy, better defense against DDoS attacks, more redundant storage etc.

PP

Pirate Praveen Sat 27 Jan 2024 9:51PM

This migration is now complete https://gitlab.com/piratemovin/diasp.in/-/issues/67 we still have some more items to finish in that checklist though (like assigning a floating ip for reverse DNS setup).

PP

Poll Created Wed 14 Feb 2024 1:07PM

Would you like to volunteer to setup coturn? Closed Sun 18 Feb 2024 12:01PM

Outcome
by Pirate Praveen Sun 18 Feb 2024 12:02PM

@Arya K setup eturnal as turn server and it is working.

What is the team, working group or event you are inviting people to?

We need to setup coturn, this is one of the last items pending in the server migration

https://gitlab.com/piratemovin/diasp.in/-/issues/74

Why is this important?

This is required for audio/video calls behind NAT (in some restrictive networks/ISPs we need this).

What are you asking people to do?

Setup coturn following https://prosody.im/doc/coturn

Select 'Accept' to participate!

Results

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Undecided 46 S PB RD MS PP S MK SK NV BC AKS RD S MKT NAJ PS AA JN JI HM

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Pirate Praveen Wed 14 Feb 2024 3:40PM

Thanks @Arya K for volunteering (via fsci xmpp group).

PP

Poll Created Sun 18 Feb 2024 12:08PM

Setup preiodic backups of the server Closed Sun 3 Mar 2024 12:00PM

What is the team, working group or event you are inviting people to?

We should setup periodic backups of the server, I think weekly snapshots using Infomaniak console may be the simplest option (you will just need to click a few buttons and select correct options).

https://gitlab.com/piratemovin/diasp.in/-/issues/69

Why is this important?

In case something happens to the server (hard disk failure, delete files by mistake etc), we need to be able to restore the service on a new machine.

What are you asking people to do?

We need volunteers to setup backup.

Select 'Accept' to participate!

Results

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Undecided 46 S PB RD MS PP S MK SK NV BC AKS RD S MKT NAJ PS AA JN JI HM

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