SkaveRat

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

dailymail?

really?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

would have been better if it was Dutch

not sure how a silly language would have made it better

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 month ago

the thing is, I can imagine the answer being "yes"

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 1 month ago

it's on archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20240223204706/https://wiki.f-hub.org/books/slrpnknet/page/server-hosting

Server hosting

This is a work in progress
Slrpnk.net is hosted by F-hub.org, a volunteer driven and non-commercial effort to host federated community services in a resource efficient and ethical way. F-hub.org grew out of a community of open-source game developers (freegamedev.net) that has existed since the early 2000s.

All the servers are operated and maintained (as a hobby) by one of the founding members and are currently located on the Azores in Portugal. Connectivity is provided through a dedicated high-speed fibreglass connection.
Hardware

The F-hub.org servers are based on second-hand consumer PC and data-centre hardware, but optimized for low energy consumption. Battery backup power is provided and data is stored with triple redundancy (off-site backups are still a work in progress). Electricity is currently provided by the utility grid (about 60% green-energy, mostly from a geothermal power-plant) but it is a work in progress to upgrade to a on-site solar PV system for near 100% renewable power.

Slrpnk.net itself currently runs on a dedicated 6th gen Intel CPU server with 8 threads, 16GB RAM and SATA SSD storage in raid configuration. Image uploads are stored on a large HDD raid array. All data is snapshotted and transferred for backup to a second shared server on daily basis.
External services

Given how difficult it is to have outgoing email accepted by the large email providers, all emails are currently routed through an external SMTP server hosted by OVH in France (same as the domain registration and DNS routing).

There are backup plans to move the servers to a co-location data-center owned by Altice, should this be required for scaling. However, monthly rent of rack-space is quite costly (starts at around 300€/month), thus this will require a substantial regular donation base to be possible.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago

should have chosen "lovemicrosoft"

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

when you take benadryl to try to seduce the hat man

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

You just have to make good friends with a ripper doc in the wasteland

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Xcom players: nah. Fuck that

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

ah, makes sense. didn't know that mbin hides the instance. Maybe as an additional link after the current one?

In any case: thanks for the work so far! Great service

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

for the links to a discussion, yes. But for a link to the community which has been decided, it's probably more user friendly to just do the exclamation mark style instead of a normal link

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