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I'm sure there are HNers who built desktops with 8TB or 16TB hard drives, and have not (yet) needed the space for as many games and media as expected.
How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)
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Re: How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)
#22Re: How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)
#23It's great that you wrote this up!
One thing I have found with many open source/selfhostable projects is just how much running them yourself can vary. It can go from a simple compose file with everything included to having to dig for obscure services and piece together how they all form the whole.
For example, I recently looked into self hosting Zotero. It is so under documented and complex that there is almost no way one could self host that (even for just one user) without that being ones job. So one needs to make a distinction between something being open source and being feasible to use/maintain.
In the end I gave up with Zotero. Even though it could have replaced Obsidian Notes, Calibre and Syncthing all at once for me.
Re: How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
didn't say it was cheap!
Ten terabytes of spinning rust is only $100-$300 or so, that's not bad at all.
My point is not the current size, it's the eventual size if bluesky succeeds. Facebook ingests 100TB/day. Self-hosting a bluesky relay isn't (won't be) a thing.
Re: How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)
#25Re: How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)
#26It's great that you wrote this up! One thing I have found with many open source/selfhostable projects is just how much running them yourself can vary. It can go from a simple compose file with everything included to having to dig for obscure services and piece together how they all form the whole. For example, I recently looked into self hosting Zotero. It is so under documented and complex that there is almost no wa…
Self-hosting/mirroring all these Bluesky components is currently a mixed bag as well though honestly the only outlier is the Relay, which is a beast. i currently have my copy of the PLC, a Jetstream with 2 days of data and a clone of the app on my laptop i play with sometimes and/or change things for an elaborate shitpost of Bluesky Nitro https://bsky.app/profile/alice.mosphere.at/post/3l7bpmmtiop2...
I don't self-host my PDS yet because there is no migration path back yet (but there will be). Though maybe I'll just yolo one day and do it anyways.
Re: How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)
#27How do I ask the mods to swap out the link to the actual post instead of my blog's front page? (...also, the title, as the original has the caveat)
Fixed now!
Re: How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now)
#28This site is extremely snappy. Good work.
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8TB WD CMR is like $99, 2x48GB of DDR5 is ~$250. Memory and storage are currently way cheaper than many think it is.
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#30This site is extremely snappy. Good work.
Thanks! Its code is available at https://github.com/aliceisjustplaying/whtwnd-blog, I intend to turn this into the template as the posts are stored on my PDS, on ATProto, using WhtWnd https://whtwnd.com/
(And all of this is a fork of my friend's Samuel's blog, https://mozzius.dev, see https://github.com/mozzius/mozzius.dev)