Thanks for the heads up! Once situation is stabilized, might I suggest also setting up a fallback server in case the main one is unreachable?
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Yeah I have thought about that actually. The problem is simply with cost. Image hosting is expensive and minio is quite resource intensive... I would need to buy a set of enterprise grade ssds and should do so for the current server as well. It hosts the image storage for all 3 fediverse servers I host combined and takes ~1.5 TB of storage at the moment, so I would need at the very least 2 drives with 4TB each to have a lot of room to spare. If I go with WD Red nvme SSDs that is 341€ per drive... I don't have to do that and I will investigate the options further, because yes I know, having a single point of failure is not good. I just didn't expect I had to do it this soon, as the machine is not even 1.5 years old...
Do you have a link that we can donate to for stuff like this to at least lighten the load on you a bit?
Yes I do: https://donations.bentigorlich.de/ Helping out would be much appreciated :)
Don't know how I haven't found that page before.
Thanks for keeping TheBrainBin up and running!
It is linked in the about page :) Sure thing :)
You do an excellent job keeping this instance up on the regular. Hiccups will happen. Don't worry yourself too much. Enjoy your evening/weekend, and thanks for your time keeping things rolling.
Thank you :)