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What's your "base" stack of choice? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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How do you set up a server? Do you do any automation or do you just open up an SSH session and YOLO? Any containers? Is docker-compose enough for you or are you one of those unicorns who had no issues whatsoever with rootless Podman? Do you use any premade scripts or do you hand craft it all? What distro are you building on top of?

I'm currently in process of "building" my own server and I'm kinda wondering how "far" most people are going, where do y'all take any shortcuts, and what do you spend effort getting just right.

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

Xen on Gentoo with Gentoo VMs. I've scripted the provisioning in bash, it's fairly straightforward - create lvm volume, extract latest root, tell xen whick kernel to boot.

Ideally would like to netboot a readonly root off nfs and apply config from some source. Probably bash :D

Some things like opnsense are much more handcrafted because they're a kind of unicorn compared to the rest of the stuff.

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

That’s impressive effort for a home lab.

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

Hi jago,

Sorry for the delayed response. I do also see the inconsistency between looking at your post directly vs lemmy.ml. I have noticed, however, that every now and the lemmy.ml throws a bad gateway error, which would imply it's getting overloaded again. That might create situations where lemmy.ml has all comments marked as federated, while some of them were actually dropped mid transit. Same applies to lemmy.one.

I don't know of any workarounds for that, unfortunately. Feels a lot like a bug.

In regards to subscriptions - you're right, the pending state does seem to actually impact federation. Some of my subscriptions to beehaw have been pending since day one but I can see the content just fine. I've written this off for another bug in the software.

I had a look at your profile - I can definitely see the posts you've created as well as the comments. I've noticed some UI bits fail to get refreshed - things like notification status, etc. I found forcing a page refresh helps with that.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.