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config.toml

@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ theme = 'LoveIt'
 
   [params.footer]
     enable = true
+    custom = ''
+    hugo = false
+    copyright = true
+    author = true
+    since = 2020
+    license = ''
 
   # LoveIt NEW | 0.2.0 App icon config
   [params.app]
@@ -198,7 +204,7 @@ theme = 'LoveIt'
     # LoveIt NEW | 0.2.0 whether to enable twemoji
     twemoji = false
     # whether to enable lightgallery
-    lightgallery = false
+    lightgallery = true
     # LoveIt NEW | 0.2.0 whether to enable the ruby extended syntax
     ruby = true
     # LoveIt NEW | 0.2.0 whether to enable the fraction extended syntax
@@ -212,9 +218,9 @@ theme = 'LoveIt'
     # LoveIt NEW | 0.2.0 Table of the contents config
     [params.page.toc]
       # whether to enable the table of the contents
-      enable = true
+      enable = false
       # LoveIt NEW | 0.2.9 whether to keep the static table of the contents in front of the post
-      keepStatic = true
+      keepStatic = false
       # whether to make the table of the contents in the sidebar automatically collapsed
       auto = true
     # LoveIt CHANGED | 0.2.0 KaTeX mathematical formulas

content/posts/mastodon_influx.md

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+---
+title: "Hosting mastodon.nz and the recent twitter influx"
+tags: ["mastodon", "twitter", "self hosting"]
+date: "2022-05-08"
+draft: true
+featuredimagepreview: "/server1.jpg"
+---
+
+Where to begin.. It's been an interesting fortnight!
+
+I started hosting [mastodon.nz](https://mastodon.nz) around January 2020 on my home 'server' for myself and few friends. It started off as a small LXC container inside Proxmox with 2 cores and 2GB RAM allocated. It stayed this way until about 6 months ago when I kept having scheduled power outages and I couldn't keep running it from my house while maintaining a reasonable uptime.
+
+{{< image src="/kitchen_server.jpg" caption="\"Server\" - April 2021" src_s="/kitchen_server.jpg" src_l="/kitchen_server_l.jpg" >}}
+
+Mid 2021 a good friend of mine offered a great deal on some actual hosting in a datacenter. Now we had 8vCPU + 8GB RAM to play with, time to migrate everything. After a few hours of mastering `rsync` and `pg_dump` - it was done, we were set for awhile. At least that's what I thought..
+
+April 2022 brought a nice little surprise - I started getting notifications of new users joining [mastodon.nz](https://mastodon.nz). Confused I started to look at what has changed.. Didn't take long to realise this was only the beggining. I had to allocate more resource to the container to account for the higher throughput.
+
+You can see in the image below it started to approach the allocated 3GB - I bumped it up to 4GB, then shortly after up to 6GB. That's as much as I could give it without moving to bigger hardware.
+
+{{< image src="/masto_memory.jpg" caption="Memory usage in mastodon.nz container" >}}
+
+I thought that would be enough for now. Nope. I got an email from Sendgrid that we had hit their 100 email/day free tier limit. Crap. I managed to upgrade the plan to account for the burst of registrations before any emails started to bounce.
+
+{{< image src="/sendgrid.jpg" caption="Email throughput peaking around 400/day" >}}
+
+It was about at this time I figured we probably needed to look into the future of mastodon and if we plan on maintaining it long term with a much higher capacity. I jumped on trademe and started working out we could afford and what we needed to maintain a decent growth over the next 12+ months. Boom! Found the perfect thing in our price range. A second hand HP DL360p Gen8 - With 32 cores and 80GB ram. The only issue is disks. I've never been one to trust second hand disks. So went waaaay over budget and bought 2 x 500GB EVO870's and 2 x 2TB EVO870's to run in a ZFS mirror for storage.
+
+{{< image src="/server1.jpg" caption="New server" >}}
+
+{{< image src="/server_prov.jpg" caption="Provisioning everything (Excuse the mess)"src_s="/server_prov.jpg" src_l="/server_prov_l.jpg" >}}
+
+After about 6 hours of configuring and installing everything required, I was ready to make a trip to a local datacenter to rack it (Thanks to previously mentioned friend!) and start the painful migration.
+// opnsense
+
+// IP
+

themes/LoveIt

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-Subproject commit ebe8257d89403ac2bc4b7ddfb4e4afae3bc925b3