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What does your infrastructure look like? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In the What are YOU self-hosting? thread, there are a lot of people here who are self-hosting a huge number of applications, but there's not a lot of discussion of the platform these things run on.

What does your self-hosted infrastructure look like?

Here are some examples of more detailed questions, but I'm sure there are plenty more topics that would be interesting:

What hardware do you run on? Or do you use a data center/cloud?
Do you use containers or plain packages?
Orchestration tools like K8s or Docker Swarm?
How do you handle logs?
How about updates?
Do you have any monitoring tools you love?
Etc.

I'm starting to put together the beginning of my own homelab, and I'll definitely be starting small but I'm interested to hear what other people have done with their setups.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use a cloud VPS at a state-owned datacenter in Vietnam (the army indirectly runs it). All things considered, they've been actually quite good, I've been a customer for several years now. Ping from my home or workplace is very low (under 10 ms). I get 4x vCPU / 2GB RAM, and 40GB storage (most of my self-hosted stuff is pretty lightweight).

Most of my self-hosted stuff is just plain packages, but I wanted to learn to use Docker and Ansible for Lemmy. Other services I sometimes run are an MQTT broker, and a few databases for logging data.

Logs go to /var/logs (there aren't many). I update software manually and often-ish. I've tested, but do not regularly use orchestration tools.

I've considered hosting at home, because a symmetrical fiber connection is ridiculously cheap here. The only reason I don't is because I need to have a VPS for client work anyway, so I may as well just use that and save the $$$ paying for a static IP at home.