majorswitcher

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cross-posted from: https://lemmyfly.org/post/354030

cross-posted from: https://lemmyfly.org/post/354024

Last months server costs was the first month payed for using donations: Thank you for that ! There is not enough balance for the next month(s) yet.

If you are using this server to browse the Fediverse, could you please help out ?

Just a euro or two per month, times many of you, would be more then enough !

The donations are help by the legal fiscal host Open Collective Europe - all reimbursements are fully transparent posted on the platform and payed out from there.

Thank you again for your consideration 🙏

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmyfly.org/post/273030

As you might understand, running the server costs real money. At the moment this comes down to +- 11,- EUR per month.

I would appreciate it if those who use this server to browse the fediverse would help out in sharing these costs. If every member would help out with a tiny amount, it would already be enough.

I've created an account on opencollective. Money donated will stay on their bank account, I will upload invoices expenses of the hosting provider, domain registrar to the platform so it is fully transparent on where the money is spent.

Thanks a lot for helping out !

https://opencollective.com/lemmyfly

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org to c/flightsim@lemmyfly.org
 

I recently got the Q4XP and discovered Widerøe flies nice domestic routes in Norway. Perfect for a short 50min flight for example. I found widerøevirtual.online - a phpVms based VA. I liked what it offers: an overview of real life flights which you can choose to fly, helps you in creating a simbrief OFP. It seems a bit quiet here though, small group of members (which is nice I think) and you’ll have to wait on manual pirep approval. The VA seems new-ish, lets hope it grows a bit and becomes somewhat more active.

I’m also a member of klm-va.nl which is much more free: you can choose to fly real life scheduled flights (get more points for that) but you can just fly any dep-arr you like in whatever plane - and still get points for it.

I’ve also tried several VA’s based on the vamSys software - the most modern and solid build va-system I think. They’ve got some very active communities, which is also a very nice part of flying with a VA.

I’m wondering what others experiences are with flying on the sim with a virtual airline?

 
[–] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 1 points 1 year ago

Nice, good to know! Have been flying the Zibo 738 mainly the last year, this might make me fly the Fenix again

[–] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 2 points 1 year ago

Nice! I’m flying an ATR into Croatia end of august IRL, can’t wait!

My sim hanger is way too full to justify buying this one as well… it’s itching though..

[–] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 1 points 1 year ago

14 days later, my postgres directory was 12GB. I was still on 18.1. Updated to 18.3 just now. Postgres directory was downscaled to 2.6GB !!! Thank you Lemmy dev's and contributors !!

[–] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

pictrs isn’t even taking up that much space, postgres takes up most !

# du -sch volumes/*
8.0K	volumes/lemmy-ui
3.4G	volumes/pictrs
8.2G	volumes/postgres
12G	total
[–] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 1 points 1 year ago

I also noticed the logs were growing and taking up quite some gb's. I've used truncate to make the syslog smaller and journalctl vacuum to keep that smaller

[–] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i'm trying to find documentation for this config but can't find any. Do you have a link maybe ?

[–] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 2 points 1 year ago

thanks for your detailed how-to ! Will try this, hopefully it holds 2 more weeks I'm leaving for holidays now :)

 

the diskspace on the server I'm using for lemmyfly.org is getting full (it was 40GB local volume, and it's at 80% now) I can get extra volumes at my hosting (Hetzner) but is it possible lemmy looks at different volumes for the volumes folder that contains pictrs, postgres and lemmy-ui ?

Or do I need to move the complete main lemmy folder to this other volume and run lemmy from there, leaving my system-volume unused for lemmy ?

[–] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

oh it's visible because I'm admin/ mod ?

[–] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How was your landing?

[–] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 3 points 1 year ago

Beautiful :) And welcome!

 

Pay for Sendgrid (100 / day for free is not enough) VS set up your own email server?

For own email server, do you not get flagged a lot as spam ?

 

I've set registration to Require application again, don't like this bots creating accounts.

Also I'm running into email limitations. Using the Sendgrid Free plan of 100 emails per day, but if a couple of member have email notification on, I'm reaching that 100 very quickly. How do others handle the high email traffic ?

 

Sad news :(

 

running a lemmy instance has learned me a lot about devops already!

I love playing around with this, the lemmy instance was a great reason. lemmyfly.org doesn't have a lot of traffic yet, I think it can handle some more. Currently running on 2 vcpu/4gb ram.

After chatting to my devops colleague at work I wanted to set up a Grafana dashboard with metrics on the server. Seems it's pretty pretty doable!

  • I installed prometheus node_exporter on my lemmy server
  • I created a second server at my VPS. Very cheap, and don't think I'll be running the Prometheus/Grafana 24/7 so I'll just create a snapshot of it, destroy the server and re-create when wanted
  • Created an internal private network so the instances can communicate without exposing ports to the public
  • Installed Prometheus on the new prometheus server
  • Installed Grafana
  • log in to Grafana, admin:admin then change password
  • Go to the Grafana home dashboard, click on + sign and click on Import. In Import via grafana.com, put the dashboard id 1860 (preset for all prometheus node_exporter metrics) and click on Load.
  • Done!

Last 2 hours in the garden with a beer on the side, WFH FTW

 
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