#41

The gravatar connection also appears to be broken.

#42

still fighting the server now

#43

moved the images back to the main disk, things are working. will see if i can move the backups onto the spare disk instead.

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#44

Are backups stored remotely too?

#45

upload test:

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#46

love the cat picture!

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#47

huge thank you to whoever used the referral link, you just made lines free for a whole month!

as a heads up, if you use the referral link in the top post, you get $10 free credit when you start a server.

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#48

and another thank you to the kind person who earned the lines server another free month.

link on the top post!

#49

wowowow thank you to the kind person who used the referral link in the top post. digitalocean just gave us (almost an entire) free month!

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#50

@tehn how’s it going storage and performance wise?
If you need any help moving the images to S3 (for example) feel free to ping me :slight_smile:

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#51

@simonvanderveldt images/downloads now use digitaloceans’ “volumes” service so we’re good for now

also, just doubled the RAM and CPU thanks to DO’s new pricing. hopefully this site will feel much faster starting now.

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#53

btw what’s the current position of things? @tehn

#54

do you mean stats?

4g RAM, 2xCPU, 40g, + 40g volume

#55

running cost, and maybe to remind of the donation link?

#56

we’re at $25/mo, referral is: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=dc98bde322d7&utm_campaign=Referral_Invite&utm_medium=Referral_Program&utm_source=CopyPaste

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#57

wowowow thank you whoever just used our referral link! much appreciated, you just got lines a month of free operation.

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#58

it’s been awhile!

thank you for whoever used lines as a referral. you just got us about 10 days worth of free server use (our costs went way up) :slight_smile:

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#59

I already have a DO account, is there some other way I can help? I’m out on sick leave and have no income at the moment, but I’d still be able, and happy, to contribute a small amount to hosting costs.

I’ll remember to be cognizant of hosting costs when posting photos. When posting, I can host photos on my own services to help with disk space.

I was also wondering if you’d looked in to offloading media to a CDN. It might reduce costs a little more. I have my spouse’s site set up with Amazon S3, but if you’re on DO you could use their service.

Thanks much.
Jimmy

#60

thanks for the kind offer— we’re not too concerned right now about raising funds for the server— there are more urgent donations to be made. perhaps this will change in the future, but for now, we’re good!

we use DO’s spaces for storage— the bandwidth and space is pretty cheap on that side. main server expense is just having faster processing w/ more memory… so the forum runs well. definitely we’d prefer people to host big files elsewhere, but photos/etc are pretty standard.

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#61

Totally noob question, may I ask how much space/bandwidth/Cpu/memory forum like this consume? From the outside looks like it is not too much people here so just wonder about that.