Not much to say, but I wanted to post the server setup for 2017.
Author: diasporg
Well the pod now has some alternate than https type access https://diasporgc3d32vv4.onion the tor site uses the *.diasp.org ssl cert, since you trust that now you should trust that for .onion. .onion ssl certs are too hard to get for now. http://diasporg.i2p you need to enable “accept headers” in your http tor relay to allow the stream to load up OR you can just use the mobile UI for tor
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Well the pod now has some alternate than https type access https://diasporgc3d32vv4.onion the tor site uses the *.diasp.org ssl cert, since you trust that now you should trust that for .onion. .onion ssl certs are too hard to get for now. http://diasporg.i2p you need to enable “accept headers” in your http tor relay to allow the stream to load up OR you can just use the mobile UI for tor
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Well my DNS VPS ChesterVm host disappeared, 7 days offline now, no responses to tickets etc, pretty normal with that market. I did however after trolling WHT for a while find Hostsailor (affiliate link of course). They have openvz servers from 1.99 and Xen from 3.99. I am using one of the 1.99 openvz for my DNS master now, 5 days in and its just great. Its the first VPS that everything worked perfect, every template I tried, RDNS, every CP feature. Anyways just wanted to share as I see folks on #diaspora IRC ask about budget VPS all the time.
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Well my DNS VPS ChesterVm host disappeared, 7 days offline now, no responses to tickets etc, pretty normal with that market. I did however after trolling WHT for a while find Hostsailor (affiliate link of course). They have openvz servers from 1.99 and Xen from 3.99. I am using one of the 1.99 openvz for my DNS master now, 5 days in and its just great. Its the first VPS that everything worked perfect, every template I tried, RDNS, every CP feature. Anyways just wanted to share as I see folks on #diaspora IRC ask about budget VPS all the time.
Read moreJust a tip on how to update a pod users email address if you need. In my example I need to edit production postgres DB user #5 and change their email. cd diaspora RAILS_ENV=production DB=postgres rails c user = User.find_by(id: 5) user.email = ‘newemail@example.org’ user.save And that is it. You can of course use this to edit other user. items where needed.
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Just a tip on how to update a pod users email address if you need. In my example I need to edit production postgres DB user #5 and change their email. cd diaspora RAILS_ENV=production DB=postgres rails c user = User.find_by(id: 5) user.email = ‘newemail@example.org’ user.save And that is it. You can of course use this to edit other user. items where needed.
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I added this little nifty JavaScript bar for 2016 pod donations and it worked well to get the server and costs paid for. Wanted to share with other podmins, so a step by step! With links to my code base so you can see it. Edit app/views/shared/_right_sections.html.haml Add to beginning: :javascript $(document).ready(function() {progress(103, $(‘#progressBar’));}); Add an empty div (in orange) for the bar to live in somewhere in your donate text. You can see I have a custom donate text area. .section .title %h4{:style => “display:inline;”} = t(‘aspects.index.donate’) #progressBar %div .content Diasporg costs about $1000USD to keep alive and running a year. For 2016 we are at $1034/$1000!
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I added this little nifty JavaScript bar for 2016 pod donations and it worked well to get the server and costs paid for. Wanted to share with other podmins, so a step by step! With links to my code base so you can see it. Edit app/views/shared/_right_sections.html.haml Add to beginning: :javascript $(document).ready(function() {progress(103, $(‘#progressBar’));}); Add an empty div (in orange) for the bar to live in somewhere in your donate text. You can see I have a custom donate text area. .section .title %h4{:style => “display:inline;”} = t(‘aspects.index.donate’) #progressBar %div .content Diasporg costs about $1000USD to keep alive and running a year. For 2016 we are at $1034/$1000!
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I have not been using this blog much, I just updated it to https and upgraded it a lot, I will try and blog more this year! diaspora is looking better and better and my interest is back up a lot in the project. WordPress always amazes me how easy it is to use and update and configure. Well I found the old one of these network maps from 2013 and things have changed a lot. I don’t know the official way these should be done, this is just the way my brain works. Here is a new one on how the diasporg pod makes it happen! I use a nice
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I have not been using this blog much, I just updated it to https and upgraded it a lot, I will try and blog more this year! diaspora is looking better and better and my interest is back up a lot in the project. WordPress always amazes me how easy it is to use and update and configure. Well I found the old one of these network maps from 2013 and things have changed a lot. I don’t know the official way these should be done, this is just the way my brain works. Here is a new one on how the diasporg pod makes it happen! I use a nice
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So I decided also on the update to move to postgresql. I found http://blog.koehn.com/technology/2014/08/21/diaspora-mariadb-to-postgres.html to be my best place to start, however I had lots of crap in my DB to also solve. First I have open_aspects and password_salt in my users table that should have dropped, so I did. Second, I had tons of created_at and updated_at that were NULL and that wont work to move to postgres so I populated them with now() as the date, hope that does not wonk things up a ton. From the example post above I just needed to add the 3 new tables around chat and I was ready to run. The pod
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So I decided also on the update to move to postgresql. I found http://blog.koehn.com/technology/2014/08/21/diaspora-mariadb-to-postgres.html to be my best place to start, however I had lots of crap in my DB to also solve. First I have open_aspects and password_salt in my users table that should have dropped, so I did. Second, I had tons of created_at and updated_at that were NULL and that wont work to move to postgres so I populated them with now() as the date, hope that does not wonk things up a ton. From the example post above I just needed to add the 3 new tables around chat and I was ready to run. The pod
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Well its been a year again since my last blog post.. I moved to the east coast from the west coast, getting settled in. We have a new dog and 2 new cats here at the house. Not been as active on the pod as I would like, I think the slowness bugs me, but the new server and the move to postgresql makes a HUGE difference. Happy 2016! On the pod front, I got a new dedicated server to move the pod to at the same host. I have it set up, but still working on migrating the mysql db to postgresql first. Specs on new server are: Dual Intel
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Well its been a year again since my last blog post.. I moved to the east coast from the west coast, getting settled in. We have a new dog and 2 new cats here at the house. Not been as active on the pod as I would like, I think the slowness bugs me, but the new server and the move to postgresql makes a HUGE difference. Happy 2016! On the pod front, I got a new dedicated server to move the pod to at the same host. I have it set up, but still working on migrating the mysql db to postgresql first. Specs on new server are: Dual Intel
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Well its time to upgrade Ubuntu to the new LTS so I can keep up on packages. Tomorrow 1/10/2015 at 8am (UTC-8) I will start the update, a extra db backup even though I have a offsite nightly, db backup takes several hours to dump. I imagine pod will be offline for 2-3 hours if all goes well, 5-8 if not. I will post updates to twitter
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Well its time to upgrade Ubuntu to the new LTS so I can keep up on packages. Tomorrow 1/10/2015 at 8am (UTC-8) I will start the update, a extra db backup even though I have a offsite nightly, db backup takes several hours to dump. I imagine pod will be offline for 2-3 hours if all goes well, 5-8 if not. I will post updates to twitter
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Well here we go today is November 5th, its been 4 years today since I launched diasp.org. I won’t try and recap it all, its been a lot of learning for me and I truly enjoy it. I have a host for the pod that is great. I get enough in donations most months to keep my share of the bills in check. I personally have gone in and out of paying attention to the code base and what is going on (make sure you follow https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/). I am a computer geek and always love keeping the server going, currently debugging some Nginx to Unicorn timeout issues again, had them years
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Well here we go today is November 5th, its been 4 years today since I launched diasp.org. I won’t try and recap it all, its been a lot of learning for me and I truly enjoy it. I have a host for the pod that is great. I get enough in donations most months to keep my share of the bills in check. I personally have gone in and out of paying attention to the code base and what is going on (make sure you follow https://blog.diasporafoundation.org/). I am a computer geek and always love keeping the server going, currently debugging some Nginx to Unicorn timeout issues again, had them years
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