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;

    • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
      2•10 months 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!

  • Xylight (photon dev)English
    4•10 months ago

    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]OPMEnglish
      3•10 months 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]MEnglish
    3•10 months ago

    Very cool, thanks for the updates!

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

  • delendumEnglish
    2•10 months ago

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

  • XusonthaEnglish
    2•10 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
      2•10 months ago

      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.

      • XusonthaEnglish
        2•10 months ago

        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]OPMEnglish
          1•10 months ago

          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.

          • XusonthaEnglish
            2•10 months ago

            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]OPMEnglish
              3•10 months ago

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