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If this is just a matter of motivation or lack of time I can understand, but if cost is an issue, why not just move to hetzner? A dedicated server there can be
by iforgotpassword 2y ago
If this is just a matter of motivation or lack of time I can understand, but if cost is an issue, why not just move to hetzner? A dedicated server there can be had for around 40 bucks, e.g.:
€42.48 max. per month.
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700
RAM: 64 GB
Drives: 2 x 4.0 TB Enterprise HDD
Thats with unlimited traffic, but no ddos protection or similar, so I don't know how essential that was at DO. Also you're on physical hw which is always more annoying if you have to call in because of a failing disk, but from my years of experience this is as smooth as it gets; shut down the server, open a ticket requesting replacement ASAP and give the drive's SN, and the server will be up again within 20 minutes. Absolutely acceptable for a side-project that doesn't offer anything mission critical. But I'd really be curious what the bill currently is at DO, and maybe you have some monster HW there that can't be matched here. Genuinely curious.
- lifthrasiir 2y agoI think the author assumes the server requirement to continue to increase in the future, even only because of ever growing number of statuses, so no amount of server hardware right now is going to put one at ease anyway.
- iforgotpassword 2y agoSure, with 191GB we'd need to know what the growth looks like. But 4TB might work for a good while. Unfortunately we know nothing about the rest. Was it a mid-tier VPS and all the money went into storage and traffic? Then this should be plenty for another couple years at least.
- immibis 2y agoYou're also allowed to choose to expire old tweets. Fediverse doesn't force every administrator to archive junk forever.
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y agoIt may also be that the moderation effort required will also continue to increase in the future, that the human ability to that is exhaustible. i.e. It may actually decrease at a point in time. You might want to act on these opposing trends before they reach a crisis point.
- mosselman 2y agoThat was my first thought too. I’ve run pgbench on some 12 euro/month VM at hetzner and it outperformed our 18k/year AWS RDS instance. Sure it isn’t managed, etc, but there is a lot of room between 12 and 1500 euros
- relistan 2y agoThere was a brief mention of other recent circumstances, which are not elucidated further. Guessing there are unstated personal reasons. Aside from that, if you’re running something on a shoestring and your own time, moving it somewhere else is a lot of work for little joy.
- Tepix 2y agoWhy not limit the bot accounts to a certain (low) number of messages per minute/hour/day/week/month?
- kstrauser 2y agoI don’t do that because I’m in the US and currently live, work, and operate my servers in the same legal jurisdiction. That’s handy! For instance, if one of my users pisses off Turkey, and they order me to take it down, I can ignore it. If the server were in the same court system as Turkey that may not be so simple.
- iforgotpassword 2y agoFair enough, would complicate things quite a bit. Still sad to see it go, but thanks for all the fun while it lasted!
- kstrauser 2y agoOh! Sorry, to be clear, I’m not the botsin.space sysop. That was just my explanation of why I wouldn’t use Hetzner to run my own server.