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Hetzner prices have skyrocketed (up to 3x); how will this affect your Fediverse server? by jerry in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 33 points 1 month ago

There was a big price increase a month or two ago that affected existing servers. I think this is recognizing that Hetzner just can’t acquire new servers (particularly memory) at anywhere close to what they could before. RAM prices are up about 400% in the past year and rising, and I think even server chassis and CPUs are being largely soaked up by the mesoscale datacenter builds.

Net net, this sucks. And my expectation is that Hetzner will still be the cheapest game in town by about the same percentages as before. It the costs keep going up, I think we will see the fediverse starting to struggle.

Between the absolute crush of bot registrations and the spiraling costs, I have been contemplating moving to a required donation for new accounts.

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Federation issue and image issue should be fixed now. (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 months ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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Federation broke after I upgraded to lemmy 0.19.19 (I tend to apply security updates relatively fast). Unfortunately, that broke federation due to some issues in the release. The issue is described here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6581 - they've not released a fixed version yet, but that was easy enough to sort out manually.

There was also an image issue. I don't know what happened there, but imagemagick was consistently failing - once I restarted the containers, that problem seems to have gone away. I don't know if it will return or was something held over from the update - perhaps an unclean restart. I'll keep an eye on it, but let me know if you see it again.

Infosec.pub destroys image quality by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 7 points 2 months ago

I am not 100% sure why yet, but the process that scales images for storage was repeatedly dying since I applied the latest lemmy update. I just restarted things and it's working now, but I am not sure if it will crash again or if it was a one off due to something not getting restarted correctly after the update - I'll keep an eye on it.

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Cyber security pros missing out on pay raises compared to other tech fields (www.personneltoday.com)

submitted 3 months ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/blueteamsec@infosec.pub

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Anonymous access to infosec.pub is disabled temporarily by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 8 points 3 months ago

Thank you. I am trying hard to keep this place humming along.

Anonymous access to infosec.pub is disabled temporarily by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 6 points 3 months ago

Go to the site configuration page in the admin section, then look for the checkbox labelled "private instance".

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Anonymous access to infosec.pub is disabled temporarily (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 months ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

9 comments fedilink

Scrapers are getting so bad that the lemmy containers are falling over, so I've disabled anonymous access to allow legit users to continue using the service. I will work on improving filtering so I can reenable anonymous access. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Help understanding video and image size restrictions by jerry in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 10 points 11 months ago

I can increase that if you like.

We have to solve the money problem! by jerry in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 49 points 1 year ago

Hi all. It’s Jerry from the interview talking about infosec.exchange. I think it’s important to understand some apparently missing context in the discussions below. I was talking about a hypothetical future where we saw tens/hundreds of millions of active accounts on the fediverse. I don’t believe the current funding model can support that, and I also don’t think the “spin up your own host” model will work for the masses, either.

I host close to two dozen different fediverse services, from lemmy to mastodon to mbin to peertube and lots more, and all that takes some significant hardware to run at larger scales. My objective has been to provide a fast and reliable fediverse experience, and so I’ve focused more on that than on making my servers scream, and so I’ve landed on hosting the fleet on a series of Hetzner Dell servers with 10GB interfaces, and that is not cheap.

We have to solve the money problem! by jerry in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago

Hey all, Jerry here (from the interview). Happy to answer any questions.

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Tesseract and Voyager interfaces now available (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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I set up tesseract (https://t.infosec.pub/) and voyager (https://v.infosec.pub/) in addition to the existing https://old.infosec.pub/.

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Fair warning about vote manipulation (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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I have no idea why this is a thing, but it’s come to my attention that there are several accounts here that are engaging in vote manipulation. This is fair warning that if it continues, I’ll be suspending the accounts involved.

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Introducing old.infosec.pub (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 years ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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Hi all. As requested, I just added the mlmym interface to infosec.pub. It approximates the old style reddit interface.

So far, it has some.... quirks. For example, as far as I can tell, you cannot post with an "undetermined" language.

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Upgrade complete. Infosec.pub downtime/upgrade (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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Hi all. Lemmy 0.19.9 released today and it has some fixes I want to get in place sooner rather than later. I will be installing the upgrade in about an hour. The downtime should be minimal, but it’s also possible it goes horribly wrong and I have to run a recovery.

Edit: the upgrade is complete. It was quite painless.

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infosec.pub downtime - December 14 (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 years ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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The following instances will be offline briefly on Saturday, December 14 from 9am ET / 2pm UTC for approxmately 10 minutes: infosec.exchange infosec.town infosec.pub pixel.infosec.exchange books.infosec.exchange matrix/element.infosec.exchange relay.infosec.exchange meetup.infosec.exchange video.infosec.exchange infosec.press infosec.place fedia.io fedia.social elk,.infosec.exchange infosec.space convo.casa

The servers supporting these instances require a reboot. The Dell servers these instances run on take a very long time to boot, so I am estimating 10 minutes of downtime. It could be more, could be less.

We use live patches to minimize reboots needed for patching, however Ubuntu only provides livepatch support for a year, which is how long most of these systems have been running for.

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Call for moderators (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 years ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/foss@infosec.pub

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Hi all. This community was created for a spambot (tuxbot) but it appears to have some following. Is anyone interested in moderating the community?

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Infosec.pub upgrade to lemmy 0.19.6 complete (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 years ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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The upgrade went smoothly and took less time than I expected. Let me know if any problems. And yes, tuxbot is still suspended.

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Infosec.pub downtime (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 years ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

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Hello everyone. Lemmy 0.19.6 was released today. I am going to apply the update Sunday, November 10 at 2am UTC. Downtime should not be more than one hour.

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test (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 years ago by jerry@infosec.pub to c/test@infosec.pub

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@jerry@infosec.exchange @jb2@mastodon.social

Image proxying on infosec.pub by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 7 points 2 years ago

That is on my to do list.

Infosec.pub downtime for maintenance by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 8 points 2 years ago

I don’t play around any more :)

Infosec.pub downtime for maintenance by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 19 points 2 years ago

ok - infosec.pub is now running on my main infrastructure - a 48 core/96 thread AMD epyc zen4 genoa with 256GB of DDR5 ECC ram and 2x4TB nvme SSDs, backed by a dedicated database server with the exact same specs, on a 10gbps network.

Hey @jerry, do you have any backup? Is there any way we can help you? by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 6 points 3 years ago

I appreciate the offer and will likely make a call for more help soon.

I federation broken? No comments erc. by jerry in c/infosecpub@infosec.pub

[-] jerry@infosec.pub 20 points 3 years ago

I am working on it...