silly judgemental post not meant to be taken too seriously (unless you agree with me in which case im dead serious)

  • Toribor@corndog.social
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    7 months ago

    I run my own tiny instance so that I can feel special. And so that I can overspend on cloud infrastructure and stress out about uptime.

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      7 months ago

      Same here! My background is in systems architecture, so I love this stuff.

      Though I run mine on my own “private cloud”. Even though it sounds like an amateur operation I’ve got the proper safety nets in place (backups, redundant power, firewalls, etc). A lot of instances are public cloud which is cool and I have nothing against that, I just wanted to do something a little different.

      I have no idea how to get people to join but I hope to have some friends in here some day :D

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        7 months ago

        It runs perfectly fine most of the time and then will occasionally lock up my entire server until I reboot.

        I’ve been working on getting some better monitoring and log aggregation set up so I can troubleshoot what is actually happening but it’s a bit slow going. As of now I can’t tell if the database is getting overloaded, if the frontend is getting spammed, or what is going on really.

        My instance has two users and it runs on a VPC with 2 CPUs and 4GB of RAM.

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          7 months ago

          lock up my entire server until i reboot

          Check the ram usage on postgres. Theres a memory leak issue thats being monitored with a proposed fix in the next version (which is upgrading to the newer version of postgres)

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            7 months ago

            Thank you! I was secretly hoping someone might have a quick suggestion of something to try. I’ll see what I can find out.

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                7 months ago

                Usually by the time I notice the server is already unreachable over SSH but I’ve been considering adding manual healthchecks to my containers. Paired with the docker-autoheal project it’s been a really low effort way for me to keep services healthy without a lot of babysitting. I’m more nervous about implimenting it for something like a stateful database though, but I suppose it’s no different than manually issuing a docker restart command.