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Same. Just tried to give it another shot and there's only 3 public servers and none are currently working

by f_leon 9y ago

staltz 9y ago
Public servers were a temporary hack and nowadays most of the community is putting their public servers down. It's not a good idea for scaling, but above all, public servers connect you with strangers, which is basically undesired for a social network with a similar use case as Facebook. There should be a pub server for each real community. I know it's not the most user friendly, but it suffices that one person in a real community of friends is techy enough to set it up, and it's not that hard: http://butt.nz/install?url=https://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb-pub http://butt.nz/install?url=https://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb... (this tool enables you to install your own server with a few clicks)
- lsiebert 9y ago
  You have to handle the case of people who belong to multiple communities though, whether through context switching or otherwise.
  - staltz 9y ago
    Intersections are allowed. It's not like you need strictly one server per community, because servers are just mirrors of each community member. In fact, when a server goes down, no data is lost and it's easy to put a new one up.
ahdinosaur 9y ago
hey, have you tried contacting a private pub? i'm Mikey, owner of `one.butt.nz`, happy to give you an invite if you send me an email! mikey@rootsystems.nz if you want to setup your own pub, i made an automated Digital Ocean installer (also a detailed manual) for a Docker-based pub: http://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb-pub http://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb-pub. i'm also working (with funding from #ssbc-grants) on a hosted pub-as-a-service product: http://buttcloud.org http://buttcloud.org.
- rapnie 9y ago
  i am interested to know about usage characteristics for running a Pub (bandwidth, storage, CPU) to be able to gauge what it will cost me to host one myself. curious to know about your experience with that. also is there a way to set rate limits?

Same. Just tried to give it another shot and there's only 3 public servers and none are currently working

by f_leon 9y ago

Same. Just tried to give it another shot and there's only 3 public servers and none are currently working

Public servers were a temporary hack and nowadays most of the community is putting their public servers down. It's not a good idea for scaling, but above all, public servers connect you with strangers, which is basically undesired for a social network with a similar use case as Facebook. There should be a pub server for each real community. I know it's not the most user friendly, but it suffices that one person in a real community of friends is techy enough to set it up, and it's not that hard: http://butt.nz/install?url=https://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb-pub http://butt.nz/install?url=https://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb... (this tool enables you to install your own server with a few clicks)

lsiebert 9y ago
You have to handle the case of people who belong to multiple communities though, whether through context switching or otherwise.
- staltz 9y ago
  Intersections are allowed. It's not like you need strictly one server per community, because servers are just mirrors of each community member. In fact, when a server goes down, no data is lost and it's easy to put a new one up.

ahdinosaur 9y ago

hey, have you tried contacting a private pub? i'm Mikey, owner of `one.butt.nz`, happy to give you an invite if you send me an email! mikey@rootsystems.nz if you want to setup your own pub, i made an automated Digital Ocean installer (also a detailed manual) for a Docker-based pub: http://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb-pub http://github.com/ahdinosaur/ssb-pub. i'm also working (with funding from #ssbc-grants) on a hosted pub-as-a-service product: http://buttcloud.org http://buttcloud.org.

rapnie 9y ago
i am interested to know about usage characteristics for running a Pub (bandwidth, storage, CPU) to be able to gauge what it will cost me to host one myself. curious to know about your experience with that. also is there a way to set rate limits?