starkzarn

I'll add to the pile: https://roguesecurity.dev/blog/xmpp

Prosody gets my vote as well for extensibility over snikket and still being relatively easy.

My guide caters more towards OCI runtimes if you're into that. I like podman and quadlets, but you could do docker as well.

XMPP for the win!

XMPP gang rise up! There are dozens of us!

I'm all about adding to the proverbial arsenal. 🤘

You're absolutely right! I'd point you back to my notion of cost-benefit analysis. Anything more than the 20min that I've spent on analysis so far isn't worth my time. If the VM falls over permanently, that was a risk and my time savings has already been worth that risk. If I were looking at something like a production file server or domain controller, sure -- I'd spend more time on it. Likely though, I'd just have engineered it better in the first place. Not every problem warrants a high precision solution. 🙂

I'd be interested in seeing that, or at least knowing which ejabberd container you chose and why.

XMPP is the way! There are dozens of us!

https://roguesecurity.dev/blog/xmpp

I'm now morbidly curious for my own sake...

Sort of liminal space vibes

You haven't mentioned your distro. Are you using systemd-homed? There are some footguns there that can manifest like this.

As another poster mentioned, btrfs quotas or subvolume allocation could be a favtor as well.

Hey thanks so much for the engagement. I was trying to run it on a VPS that cost $35/year. 2GiB of RAM wasn't quite enough to make it work for me, granted that was with the webserver and ancillary supporting services.

I'll find an opportunity to test it out though, as rybbit looks great. I appreciate the mention on the other FOSS products, that's a good look for you. I have plenty of experience with umami already. Cheers!

Glad to see you post this here. I've been experimenting with selfhosted analytics for a while now and have attempted your project here a couple times. The thing that kills me is the Clickhouse requirement. It makes it impossible to host on a lightweight VPS. Like why should my analytics platform require so much more compute than my simple static site? Am I missing something?

Okay this is excellent content, thank you!

I went through and fiddled with some more stuff to try and get this working to no avail. However, it inspired me to take apart netboot.xyz a bit more, and I was able to grab an efi and get next boot to load the efi file. It took me too long to realize you need the console tty arguments as part of the boot cmdline to get it working interactively, but after I got there I got it netbooted. Sadly though, it almost immediately runs into an OOM condition and thus isn't practical on a free tier x86 asset. It would probably work on an aarch64 node, but I already have my allotted arm node spun up and working so I don't have a free one to practice with.

Solid write-up though, thank you for putting that together!