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@fox11 Hashtag are your friend for getting up and running it'll help you find others and others find you #NewToFedi #Fedi #cars #tech
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For the folks out there curious (or the #sysadmin #mastoadmin #racknerd)'s out there. This is the rack which will shortly (hopefully!) be running MastodonAppUK and Universeodon. It isn't fully complete, there's a bit more network cabling to do and it's certainly not the tidiest job I've ever done but honestly we forgot some bits we needed the first time and yesterday involved adding the two switches at the top (Front and rear) as well as ripping out some of the original bits that were in there.
I will at some point write up a proper blog post about what we've deployed and why we chose what we chose but yeah, this has been a hell of a lot of time and work, and massive shout-out to @Fyrsta who back at the start of September took a day out of their day job to come help me rack this stuff, that Dell server certainly would have been difficult / impossible to solo rack!
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For the folks out there curious (or the #sysadmin #mastoadmin #racknerd)'s out there. This is the rack which will shortly (hopefully!) be running MastodonAppUK and Universeodon. It isn't fully complete, there's a bit more network cabling to do and it's certainly not the tidiest job I've ever done but honestly we forgot some bits we needed the first time and yesterday involved adding the two switches at the top (Front and rear) as well as ripping out some of the original bits that were in there.
I will at some point write up a proper blog post about what we've deployed and why we chose what we chose but yeah, this has been a hell of a lot of time and work, and massive shout-out to @Fyrsta who back at the start of September took a day out of their day job to come help me rack this stuff, that Dell server certainly would have been difficult / impossible to solo rack!
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For the folks out there curious (or the #sysadmin #mastoadmin #racknerd)'s out there. This is the rack which will shortly (hopefully!) be running MastodonAppUK and Universeodon. It isn't fully complete, there's a bit more network cabling to do and it's certainly not the tidiest job I've ever done but honestly we forgot some bits we needed the first time and yesterday involved adding the two switches at the top (Front and rear) as well as ripping out some of the original bits that were in there.
I will at some point write up a proper blog post about what we've deployed and why we chose what we chose but yeah, this has been a hell of a lot of time and work, and massive shout-out to @Fyrsta who back at the start of September took a day out of their day job to come help me rack this stuff, that Dell server certainly would have been difficult / impossible to solo rack!
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For the folks out there curious (or the #sysadmin #mastoadmin #racknerd)'s out there. This is the rack which will shortly (hopefully!) be running MastodonAppUK and Universeodon. It isn't fully complete, there's a bit more network cabling to do and it's certainly not the tidiest job I've ever done but honestly we forgot some bits we needed the first time and yesterday involved adding the two switches at the top (Front and rear) as well as ripping out some of the original bits that were in there.
I will at some point write up a proper blog post about what we've deployed and why we chose what we chose but yeah, this has been a hell of a lot of time and work, and massive shout-out to @Fyrsta who back at the start of September took a day out of their day job to come help me rack this stuff, that Dell server certainly would have been difficult / impossible to solo rack!
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While I'd love to see #GamingOnMac the reality is the majority of games just aren't designed on Mac, and I don't really know if a "Gaming Mode" is going to make a huge difference for the types of games most of us could play.
Likewise, all of these latency improvements and such would be great to be able to select for just about anything.
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Okay, huge shout out to #Solaar which is just next level awesome.
I have a MXMaster mouse and I love it, but Logitech don't have a Linux version to customise settings and I really hate the auto "Fast scroll" on the mouse wheel, this gives me all the customisation and more that I could ever want which in this case is setting it never to go into auto free spinning hell mode!
And no I didn't realise my mouse was so low on battery, yes I will be charging it overnight tonight!
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I nearly forgot, at the #TootWales app launch last night I had a digital caricature drawn of me so I figure now is as good a time as any to get my profile picture updated. Really did give me a good giggle when I got the e-mail with the picture.
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Finally catching up on sharing my #ZooTrip pictures from when @PrinceMumbles and I went to the zoo earlier. Enjoy some #AnimalPics
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Just so I can finally clear the announcement off of #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon - We've been running without the Cloudflare Caching / proxy service since November 2025 now and other than the odd hiccup behind the scenes (Which CF wouldn't have helped with anyway) it's been really stable and from the folks that have provided feedback on the performance of the sites, both in the UK (Where we host the sites) and internationally the performance has been noticeably better.
We'll continue to monitor the global performance of the site, we continuously monitor latency and response times from various global endpoints and if it looks like we need to enable some sort of cache / CDN beyond what we now have in place we will re- visit it in the future. The change to remove CF proxying is going to remain permanent and now be "Normal" instead of the response to their global outage last year.
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And apologies to the folks here on #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon - This has broken a lot of follower / following relationships which I know is never ideal. This is a lot of the reason I've been reluctant up until now to suspend the instance but the amount of reports we keep getting for it and the fact it's running a very old version of Mastodon with no active admin account since Feb 2023 means I don't see a sensible way to stay federated now.
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We're adding mastodon.cloud to our #Fediblock list due to the instance seemingly being abandoned with open signups and zero moderation. The burden of us suspending accounts locally is not practical when the instance is out of date and not being maintained.
It's been flagged since August last year - https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115027342813989021 so I don't see it likely that anything is suddenly going to change.
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Apologies for the blip there impacting a wide range of the sites we run ( #MastodonAppUK / #Universeodon / #FediMedi and for #MastoAdmin The Universeodon relay).
It looks like the NIC in one of our app servers had some sort of weird failure which prevented traffic on one of the two interfaces and due to it being setup in aggregation and not failover it caused a total outage of that server and all the VM's and CT's running on it.
We have also identified some issues with our secondary HAProxy instance which we need to get to the bottom of as things did not fail over as expected (Even though we know we haven't got full HA operational yet across all services because storage and RAM prices are through the roof and we need to add a third server for that).
Apologies again, we should be back to normal for now.
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Just a quick note for #MastoAdmin 's using the #Universeodon Relay.
The relay is one of the last things to get moved now onto our new infrastructure, I'm about to start making the configuration changes and DNS updates which will mean our new load balancer infrastructure will start to serve requests for the relay as well as finally supporting IPv6 properly.
Later today I will then need to migrate the relay DB and config onto a new server so there will be a short outage later on to the relay while I do this.
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There will be a short interruption to the #Universeodon full text search shortly while we re-deploy and re-generate all of the search data into a new Elastic instance as one of the last steps we need to undertake to get us fully migrated off of our legacy servers. It's likely to take a few hours for the search to fully re-create so there might be some lacking results during this time.
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I've just pushed a minor change to our infrastructure configuration for #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon - I'm hoping this should fix some of the weird issues we've seen around IPv6 and it does mean that if our primary HAproxy server does go down for any reason the secondary server will take on the IPv6 connectivity as well.
I do need to look and see if I can do something smart to cover some IPv6 monitoring as right now IPv6 can silently fail and the site will still show as fully healthy.
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Sorry for the blip there on #Universeodon (And then on both sites). It looks like our DB for Universeodon filled up and monitoring despite being configured seemingly doesn't alert on a lot of stuff right now which I now need to take a look at.
Our router also broke so DNS failed to resolve so I've had to give that a kick as well, we should be back up and running now :)
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Just as a bit of notice for #MastodonAppUk and #Universeodon folks
There will be an outage later this evening to facilitate the work I need to do here at the dc. Hoping it won't take too long and I'll let folks know when I have an idea on time.
I'm just waiting now for a dc staff member to let me through the front gate as it's a weekend so nobody's normally here 😂
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It looks like I'm going to need to drive up to the DC now because I can't reasonably apply my fix remotely without risking breaking everything and having to go up there anyway.
For folks here on #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon if you'd like to chip in to support my growing coffee addiction with the nonsense that is servers and kit breaking I would always appreciate it.
One Off / Monthly on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/mastodonappuk
And monthly support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/universeodon
The support is really appreciated and allows me to continue investing in the hardware and resources required to keep the sites online and with the continued goal now of removing dependencies on external parties.
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It looks like the connectivity issues between #Universeodon and #MastodonAppUK are at least in part due to SideKiq and IPv6.
I've disabled IPv6 on SideKiq for the time being to at least let me try and get things back operational.
For now though it's very much past my bedtime and I need sleep!
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We're having some major issues this evening across #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon due to connectivity issues with our primary gateway router at our data center.
I'm waiting on some network monitoring info from our ISP but I'm starting to suspect this may be some sort of attack as I can't think of any other reason our router would be seemingly crashing regularly.
It seems as if the device comes online for a few seconds and then drops back off the internet.
Thankfully it doesn't seem to be actively impacting the sites themselves but our content processing is currently almost entirely offline due to issues with outbound connectivity.
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We may be seeing some network related issues across #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon
I'm keeping an eye but our router is currently unresponsive.
The status page will be updated should we actually see connectivity drops - https://status.atlas-media.co.uk
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Just a note, we have added the following domains to our #Fediblock list across #MastodonAppUK #Universeodon and #MedMastodon
- privacysafe.social
- privacymatters.proBoth domains have had more than a few recent reports which no action have been taken by the instances with relation to misinformation / anti-vax content and in the case of the second domain transphobia.
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For #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon folks - I think I've finally got the IPv6 connectivity working again, I need to do some digging to see what caused it to drop it's address in the first place and have a load of work to get the secondary haproxy instance aligned and sync'd with the first one but I'm hoping this should mean we're now fully operational again and everything should be working :)
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I've had a few reports that #MastodonAppUk and #Universeodon are playing up again with IPv6 since the maintenance I had to do yesterday which involved a full reboot of all our servers.
I'm fairly busy with other commitments today but will take a look when I can.