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We're on ARM server now! (lemy.lol)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We were using 4 vCPU, 8 RAM x86 server for 15.7€.

Now we're using 8 vCPU, 16 RAM ARM server for 14.4€!

We literally doubled the specs for cheaper price! I don't understand why an ARM server is this cheap, but I don't really care. It's working great right now.

Only disadvantage of this is Photon and Alexandrite UIs are not working. Not researched yet but they're probably not compatible with ARM. But I'll find a way because I like Alexandrite and using it a lot lately.

Also I removed Cloudflare proxy. Although they offer an excellent service for free, I believe they're not fitting in decentralized nature of fediverse.

Thanks to;

ubergeek77 for deploying multi arch images of Lemmy.
@[email protected] for their opinions about centralized proxies.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hello, I'm the photon dev.

I really want to add ARM docker images but I can't test locally for some reason. Does anyone know how to make GitHub actions publish ARM images?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hey! I really wish to know but I’m not familiar with it. Voyager and MLMYM working good, how about copying theirs?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Update: arm64 images are now available on Photon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you ❤️ Although I'm not sure is it about Photon but I'm getting the error below 🤷‍♂️

start service photon: unable to find user photon: no matching entries in passwd file

Update: now it fixed thank you for all your work!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Very cool, thanks for the updates!

I guess now we wait for RISC-V offerings in a few (thousand) years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I applaud your move to get rid of Cloudflare, you're right that it goes against decentralization.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Who do you use for hosting? Also, do the ARM images seem to work well/have problems?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using Hetzner. Haven't experienced any problems yet. Lemmy, pictrs, postgres seems working fine. The only problem is alternative UIs as in the post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, Hetzner has good stuff. Photon just released a new version like 15 minutes ago with "an attempt at ARM docker images"

How much storage do you use and how do you manage it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep they just released it 🎉 Right now I'm using 26GB without media files since they're on S3. I'm using 160GB they're giving and I will add extra volume when it reaches to the limit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is most of that storage used from your own users or federated posts? I wonder because my instance is using a lot of storage and I only have a few users who don't post mucb

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My users content is like 0.01% of it. It's all federated content. I don't like this BS to be honest.