Of course you probably don't want to run it on the same server you're running Lemmy on to avoid it also going down. Personally I run it on a free tier Oracle Cloud instance.
There have been a few outages lately so it would be helpful to have a reference for status and to see communications.
I know being a sysadmin is thankless work, I'm a DevOps engineer by trade :) so thanks for all you do. And if you ever need tips I have my work and personal home lab as a reference.
I'm loving it. But its not a "search what you want and you'll find it" like YouTube is. You can't search for a video to DIY your bathroom tile.
That alternative simply doesn't exist.
If you treat it like podcasts i.e. follow creators you like (just about all of them are also YouTubers) theres some excellent content there. And the creators are all stakeholders so no daddy capitalist screwing with algorithms.
PeerTube is the open source federated one. But discovery is next to impossible on it.
Where do people keep getting this SLA pink promise information? Your SLA has to be presented to potential clients and whether you've been successful in maintaining it can make or break them being on board. It's also audited for things like SOC2 compliance.
That's a microscopic fraction of what a product the size of Signal is dealing with, and unimaginably small compared to AWS
This is the actual realistic change a lot of people are missing. Multi cloud is hard and imperfect and brings its own new potential issues. But AWS does give you tools to adopt multi region. It's just very expensive.
Unfortunately DNS transcends regions though so that can't really be escaped.
Federation/decentralization is great. It's why we're here on Lemmy.
It also means you expect everyone involved, people you've never met or vetted, to be competent and be able to shell out the cash and time to commit to a certain level of uptime. That's unacceptable for a high SLA product like Signal. Hell midwest.social, the Lemmy instance I'm on, is very often quite slow. I and others put up with it because we know it's run by one person on one server that he's presumably paying for himself. But that doesn't reflect Lemmy as a whole.
AWS isn't just a bunch of servers. They have dedicated services for database clusters, cache store, data warehouse, load balancing, container clusters, kubernetes clusters, CDN, web access firewall, to name just a few. Every region has multiple datacenters, the largest by far of which is North Virginia's. By default most people use one DC but multi region while being a huge expensive lift is something they already have tools to assist with. Also, and maybe most importantly, AWS, Azure and GCP run their own backbones between the datacenters rather than rely on the shared one that you, me, and most other smaller DCs are using.
I'm a DevOps Engineer but I'm no big tech fan. I run my own hobby server too. Amazon is an evil company. But the claim that "multi cloud is easy, smaller CSPs are just as good" is naive at best.
Ideally some legislation comes in and forces these companies to simplify the process for adopting multi cloud, because right now you have to build it all yourself and it becomes still very imperfect when you start to factor things like databases and DNS, and this is what they rely on hard for vendor lock-in.
you, on a single ISP who relies on the world's shared backbone rather than your own between multiple DCs within a region and multiple regions around the world, have better uptime than AWS?
Stop.
I'm all for decentralizing for the case of no single entity controlling everything, but not for the case of uptime. That is one thing you give up with services like Matrix or Lemmy.
AWS actually has an SLA it's contractually committed to when you pay them with thousands of engineers working to maintain it.
Ugh don't start with the conspiracies man. That's for the right wing nut jobs. Democrats lost because they keep putting out trash establishment AIPAC candidates against the fascist regime.
Seriously. Lemmy is kinda gross with this stuff.
This change is shit but I'm not a fan of personal attacks on the guy.
Hey, did you ever get a chance to explore this?
I run Uptime Kuma on my personal server, it works as a standalone Docker container if that's your jam: https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma
Of course you probably don't want to run it on the same server you're running Lemmy on to avoid it also going down. Personally I run it on a free tier Oracle Cloud instance.
There have been a few outages lately so it would be helpful to have a reference for status and to see communications.
I know being a sysadmin is thankless work, I'm a DevOps engineer by trade :) so thanks for all you do. And if you ever need tips I have my work and personal home lab as a reference.
Public transportation does this too and isn't controlled by some company trying to make graphs go up
Nebula is the only thing remotely comparable.
I'm loving it. But its not a "search what you want and you'll find it" like YouTube is. You can't search for a video to DIY your bathroom tile.
That alternative simply doesn't exist.
If you treat it like podcasts i.e. follow creators you like (just about all of them are also YouTubers) theres some excellent content there. And the creators are all stakeholders so no daddy capitalist screwing with algorithms.
PeerTube is the open source federated one. But discovery is next to impossible on it.
Thank you. This drives me crazy. Apple for comparison is less then 0.5%
The video is either being transcoded or direct streaming (audio only being transcoded). The red line is how far ahead that process is.
FUCK.
I've been wanting to sell mine for ages and get the Honeywell Z-Wave one. Now I can't really do that. Fuck off Google.
Like many parts of the US, we were in serious g danger of massive budget cuts for next year after COVID transit relief dries up.
In Chicago's case we had three scenarios.
Funding does not pass, 40% service cuts everywhere. Devastating
700 million. Status quo, the current schedules remain with the gaps many have been experiencing since ether pandemic.
This 1.5 billion. Not without compromises, but very promising to improve reliability and frequency
How long until AI models start training off Grokipedia, and we have the biggest game of hallucination telephone?
Yes, that works! It seems to just be when exploring among all channels that the problem happens.
Oh, do you run peertube.wtf?? Thank you for your work if you do!
Where do people keep getting this SLA pink promise information? Your SLA has to be presented to potential clients and whether you've been successful in maintaining it can make or break them being on board. It's also audited for things like SOC2 compliance.
That's a microscopic fraction of what a product the size of Signal is dealing with, and unimaginably small compared to AWS
It's on every instance, and on the explore tab too.
Great. Can you reference an SLA to prove that, and what's the size of that server?
Apples and oranges.
It's not just words on paper. It's a level of service you commit to and owe repercussions when broken.
This is the actual realistic change a lot of people are missing. Multi cloud is hard and imperfect and brings its own new potential issues. But AWS does give you tools to adopt multi region. It's just very expensive.
Unfortunately DNS transcends regions though so that can't really be escaped.
So much talking out of ass in these comments.
Federation/decentralization is great. It's why we're here on Lemmy.
It also means you expect everyone involved, people you've never met or vetted, to be competent and be able to shell out the cash and time to commit to a certain level of uptime. That's unacceptable for a high SLA product like Signal. Hell midwest.social, the Lemmy instance I'm on, is very often quite slow. I and others put up with it because we know it's run by one person on one server that he's presumably paying for himself. But that doesn't reflect Lemmy as a whole.
AWS isn't just a bunch of servers. They have dedicated services for database clusters, cache store, data warehouse, load balancing, container clusters, kubernetes clusters, CDN, web access firewall, to name just a few. Every region has multiple datacenters, the largest by far of which is North Virginia's. By default most people use one DC but multi region while being a huge expensive lift is something they already have tools to assist with. Also, and maybe most importantly, AWS, Azure and GCP run their own backbones between the datacenters rather than rely on the shared one that you, me, and most other smaller DCs are using.
I'm a DevOps Engineer but I'm no big tech fan. I run my own hobby server too. Amazon is an evil company. But the claim that "multi cloud is easy, smaller CSPs are just as good" is naive at best.
Ideally some legislation comes in and forces these companies to simplify the process for adopting multi cloud, because right now you have to build it all yourself and it becomes still very imperfect when you start to factor things like databases and DNS, and this is what they rely on hard for vendor lock-in.
you, on a single ISP who relies on the world's shared backbone rather than your own between multiple DCs within a region and multiple regions around the world, have better uptime than AWS?
Stop.
I'm all for decentralizing for the case of no single entity controlling everything, but not for the case of uptime. That is one thing you give up with services like Matrix or Lemmy.
AWS actually has an SLA it's contractually committed to when you pay them with thousands of engineers working to maintain it.
Ugh don't start with the conspiracies man. That's for the right wing nut jobs. Democrats lost because they keep putting out trash establishment AIPAC candidates against the fascist regime.
Diminishing returns.
480 to 720 was massive, and 720 to 1080 was big too. 1080 to 4K is definitely not always noticeable and 8K is well beyond worth the file size.