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Yes, I did get the processor off of eBay for 75 bucks and the motherboard for 150. That I figured was a score and it shipped from Taiwan so it didn’t quite take forever to get here. The drives, case, RAM, and low-end GPU I got from the flea markets.
I am an archo-communist, cat-loving dude with a very eclectic range of interests and passions. Currenty, I’m into networks of all kinds and open source software.
Yes, I did get the processor off of eBay for 75 bucks and the motherboard for 150. That I figured was a score and it shipped from Taiwan so it didn’t quite take forever to get here. The drives, case, RAM, and low-end GPU I got from the flea markets.
It’s a Proxmox server that’s well under subscribed and utilized. I currently use it as a remote back-up for my brother’s business computer and the family’s various machines. It has one Arch Linux VM for that purpose. Another Arch Linux VM has two docker containers for running Mastodon and Lemmy.
I want to do more with it but right now it’s time for me to buckle down and actually take some steps toward bettering my career because I am sick of being a senior Windows desktop support technician. I really want to do Linux/BSD systems administration or DevOps stuff. I hate feeling like I have to learn under the gun but, at this point, thinking about work on Monday is making me physically ill. The only relief will be knowing that there is an end to this tunnel.
A lot of the components I actually bought at computer swap meets/flea markets. Some vendors had corporate cast-off hard drives and all kinds of good deals.
Nice! I built my server with a brand new tower case and bunch of second hand components. It has a 2016-era Xeon E5-2690 with 128GB of ECC RAM and 12 TB of storage in a RAID z1 config. I built for less than 500 bucks.
Honestly I cannot think of any right now because I am so fed up with corporate proprietary crap.
Hey that’s a pretty good setup! It’s a lot better than mine! LOL.
You’ve got Pixelfed which is similar to Instagram.
Nextcloud works well for general files. Immich is the way to go specifically for photo storing. It’s got a whole lot of added features.
If your requirements don’t need federation, then look into nextcloud.
I currently use Libby without a SIM card.
Definitely! All it requires are having a Google Account.
Check out The Odin Project. It is a free full stack developer course. I’m going to give it a try myself.
Ah thank you. I clearly had no idea. 😹
In Lemmy, subreddits are known as communities. You join a community by its name, for example !mycommunity@example. Do a search for that community, click on the search result, and you’ll be given an option to subscribe. Note that the search might come up as 0 results even though you got the community name right. It’s just taking longer to find the community.
Maybe tell me where you’re stuck and I can help?
You need to actually piece together those few to come up with one cohesive working instance. I can share with you the docker-compose.yml file that worked for me, if that will help.
version: '3'
services:
db:
restart: always
image: postgres:14-alpine
shm_size: 256mb
networks:
- internal_network
healthcheck:
test: ['CMD', 'pg_isready', '-U', 'postgres']
volumes:
- ./postgres14:/var/lib/postgresql/data
environment:
- 'POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD=trust'
redis:
restart: always
image: redis:7-alpine
networks:
- internal_network
healthcheck:
test: ['CMD', 'redis-cli', 'ping']
volumes:
- ./redis:/data
# es:
# restart: always
# image: docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:7.17.4
# environment:
# - "ES_JAVA_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m -Des.enforce.bootstrap.checks=true"
# - "xpack.license.self_generated.type=basic"
# - "xpack.security.enabled=false"
# - "xpack.watcher.enabled=false"
# - "xpack.graph.enabled=false"
# - "xpack.ml.enabled=false"
# - "bootstrap.memory_lock=true"
# - "cluster.name=es-mastodon"
# - "discovery.type=single-node"
# - "thread_pool.write.queue_size=1000"
# networks:
# - external_network
# - internal_network
# healthcheck:
# test: ["CMD-SHELL", "curl --silent --fail localhost:9200/_cluster/health || exit 1"]
# volumes:
# - ./elasticsearch:/usr/share/elasticsearch/data
# ulimits:
# memlock:
# soft: -1
# hard: -1
# nofile:
# soft: 65536
# hard: 65536
# ports:
# - '127.0.0.1:9200:9200'
web:
#build: .
#image: ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon
image: tootsuite/mastodon:latest
restart: always
env_file: .env.production
command: bash -c "rm -f /mastodon/tmp/pids/server.pid; bundle exec rails s -p 3000"
networks:
- external_network
- internal_network
healthcheck:
# prettier-ignore
test: ['CMD-SHELL', 'wget -q --spider --proxy=off localhost:3000/health || exit 1']
ports:
- '127.0.0.1:3000:3000'
depends_on:
- db
- redis
# - es
volumes:
- ./public/system:/mastodon/public/system
streaming:
#build: .
#image: ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon
image: tootsuite/mastodon:latest
restart: always
env_file: .env.production
command: node ./streaming
networks:
- external_network
- internal_network
healthcheck:
# prettier-ignore
test: ['CMD-SHELL', 'wget -q --spider --proxy=off localhost:4000/api/v1/streaming/health || exit 1']
ports:
- '127.0.0.1:4000:4000'
depends_on:
- db
- redis
sidekiq:
#build: .
#image: ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon
image: tootsuite/mastodon:latest
restart: always
env_file: .env.production
command: bundle exec sidekiq
depends_on:
- db
- redis
networks:
- external_network
- internal_network
volumes:
- ./public/system:/mastodon/public/system
healthcheck:
test: ['CMD-SHELL', "ps aux | grep '[s]idekiq\ 6' || false"]
## Uncomment to enable federation with tor instances along with adding the following ENV variables
## http_proxy=http://privoxy:8118
## ALLOW_ACCESS_TO_HIDDEN_SERVICE=true
# tor:
# image: sirboops/tor
# networks:
# - external_network
# - internal_network
#
# privoxy:
# image: sirboops/privoxy
# volumes:
# - ./priv-config:/opt/config
# networks:
# - external_network
# - internal_network
networks:
external_network:
internal_network:
internal: true
NGINX Proxy Manager makes things even easier! All you have to do is make certain that you have websockets enabled for the proxy settings to go to your Mastodon instance and don’t forward via SSL because NPM is your SSL termination point. On your Mastodon instance’s NGINX configuration, change the port to listen on port 80, comment out all of the SSL related options, and in the @proxy section change the proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
to proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto https;
This is just telling Mastodon a small lie so it thinks the traffic is encrypted. This is necessary to prevent a redirection loop which will break things.
It’s actually not hard to get Mastodon running behind an existing reverse proxy. It’s also not hard to run it in a docker container. I run mine in a docker container with no issues. When version 4.1.4 was released, I just ran a docker-compose pull, and voila, my instant was upgraded. I can share my configs with you if you want. What is your existing reverse proxy server?
Thanks, mate! I’ll take all I can get.