Ok. I am tired of Infosec.exchange being sluggish. I just submitted a crazy order with Hetzner to upgrade the instance. Hopefully the last time for a while. I ordered a dell AMD Genoa 48 core server with 256 GB of ram to act as a database and redis server, a dell 64 core sapphire rapids server with 256gb of ram to act as the single front end/puma/streaming server, and an amd 7950 with 128gb of ram to run minio (insourcing from Backblaze).
I ordered all with 10g network interfaces to be connected to the same switch.
I continue to see issues with Backblaze performance causing issues with posting.
This will consolidate the environment down from about 13 servers to 4 (I will keep using less expensive servers on 1G networks for Sidekiq if it can’t run on the sapphire rapids server.
I will be putting that behind Fastly for global distribution and ddos mitigation. I don’t know whether I’ll keep serving media via bunny.net or try to do that with Fastly also. Bunny works pretty well and is cost effective for media delivery.
@jerry I'm not sure what "sluggish" means to you, because I certainly haven't noticed any problems – infosec.exchange is by far the most responsive website I use.
…and I still need to find a proofreader for my toots. It’s damn amazing how I can look at a sentence and think it’s fine and 2 minutes after I post it, I clearly see all the misspellings and extra words.
Something to note for people using Mastodon 4.2.0-xxx - the advanced/multi-column layout now has a different URL. If you use a shortcut to get to a mastodon instance and have the advanced web interface enabled, you will land on a non-advanced, single column layout. Update your shortcuts to include "deck", such as:
infosec.exchange/public/local becomes infosec.exchange/deck/public/local
Is anyone using the Mastodon app on Android having trouble logging into infosec.exchange or other mastodon instances, with the error that it "seems not to be a Mastodon server"?
I don't have android and it appears to be working fine on iOS
@jerry Some people apparently also believe that "high quality hailstones" are made in underground factories in Spain (and then distributed over the Europe).
People - the mugshot many people are sharing it fake. The one on this news post appears to be legitimate from the Fulton County jail https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna101664