Isn’t this only for people running NGINX?

is there a thriving selfhost/homelab type place that is active?

I mean, you’re right here.

Is there any benefit to hosting your own Lemmy and mesh it with the other Lemmey’s out there?

If it’s your personal instance: altruism. You’re taking some burden off of the main Lemmy servers by hosting your own with your content. You’re saving them bandwidth, storage and CPU time.

If it’s a public instance meant for others to use: you’re participating in decentralisation and keeping the Fediverse alive. Every new instance has their own mods, rules and policies. It’s like a little island connected to other islands to form a community.

I can wrap my 70 year old head around it.

Holy shit I hope my brain can process new tech at that age like you. Good luck, DM me if you have trouble.

Thanks

Alright thanks

I thought they were using the USB protocol. Thanks

Oh. I thought they were using USB. Thanks

I cannot see any decent PCIE X1 to X16 risers on amazon. Everything is USB based which I don’t want

It doesn’t need that kind of bandwidth. 6 gigabit ports cannot saturate pcie gen 3 x1 in terms of bandwidth anyway.

What do I do if the card is PCIe gen 2 x8 though?

I’ll likely go for a 4 or 6 gigabit port card, so PCIe gen 3 x1 is not a problem. Am I correct in understanding that the card will run at PCIe gen 3 X1 if I do this?

What can I do if the card is PCIe gen 2 x8? These cards from Silicom are really cheap on ebay

Technically the slot is PCIe Gen 4 x1, but I understand. TBH PCIe gen 3 X1 is fine too, that’s more than 6 port Gigabit cards can saturate anyway.

Even maxing out the ports won’t be a problem. Even 6 gigabit ports don’t saturate a PCIe Gen 3 X1 slot in terms of bandwidth. But will the card work at all if all the physical pins are not connected electrically to the slot?

The card only needs PCIE Gen 3 X2 == PCIE Gen 4 X1 in terms of bandwidth. I was hoping to fit it into the slot since it meets the bandwidth requirements

How would I do it then? The card doesn’t exactly need PCIE gen 3 X4, at the most it needs PCIE Gen 3 X2 == PCIE Gen 4 X1 in terms of bandwidth.

You can seed public torrents with Proton? I thought they did something to curb that a few years back.

What is your opinion on Windscribe and PIA?

Considering I am the operations team, just goes to show how much I have left to learn. I didn’t know about the external-dns operator.

Unfortunately, my company is a bit strange with certs and won’t let me handle them myself. Something to check out at home I guess.

I agree with you about the LVM. I have been meaning to set up Rook forever but never got around to it. It might still take a while but thanks for the reminder.

Wow. That must have been some work. I don’t have these certs myself but I’m looking at the CKA and CKS (or whatever that’s called). For sure, I loved our discussion. Thanks for your help.

I am using a reverse proxy in production. I just didn’t mention it here.

I’d have to set up a DNS record for both. I’d also have to create and rotate certs for both.

We use LVM, I simply mounted a volume for /usr/share/elasticsearch. The VMWare team will handle the underlying storage.

I agree with manually dealing with the repo. I dont think I’d set up unattended upgrades for my k8s cluster either so that’s moot. Downtime is not a big deal: this is not external and I’ve got 5 nodes. I guess if I didn’t use Ansible it would be a bit more legwork but that’s about it.

Overall I think we missed each other here.

I didn’t think most of them allow port-forwarding

No idea. I personally use PVs and PVCs with k3s and it’s trivial there with some downtime

There’s a GUI for containerd?

I’m interested in the VPN you use