there are plenty of enterprise u.2 and m.2 22110 on ebay

Codeberg got hit with a volumetric DDOS last month too

We see it over the pole here in Sweden too!

Do these work with European bands? Is it worth shipping to Europe?

Mullvad is Swedish

The real gulf of America is the gulf that Trump has ripped open between the US and its allies

Ah, strange.

I’ve never had any issues, but I also haven’t used it in a while.

Might be related to transcoding/sub-burning? https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/issues/6210

Jellyfin has much better Syncplay than plex

release announcement:

https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-10-6-0/

Do they have 996 in Taiwan? I thought that was just the PRC?

All storage is on a Ceph cluster with 2 or 3 disk/node replication. Files and databases are backed up using Velero and Barman to S3-compatible storage on the same cluster for versioning. Every night, those S3 buckets are synced and encrypted using rclone to a 10tb Hetzner Storage Box that keeps weekly snapshots.

Config files in my git repo:

https://codeberg.org/jlh/h5b/src/branch/main/argo/external_applications/velero-helm.yaml

https://codeberg.org/jlh/h5b/src/branch/main/argo/custom_applications/bitwarden/database.yaml

https://codeberg.org/jlh/h5b/src/branch/main/argo/custom_applications/backups

https://codeberg.org/jlh/h5b/src/branch/main/argo/custom_applications/rook-ceph

Bit more than 3 copies, but hdd storage is cheap. Majority of my storage is Jellyfin anyways, which doesn’t get backed up.

I’m working on setting up some small nvme nodes for the ceph cluster, which will allow me to move my nextcloud from hdd storage into its own S3 bucket with 4+2 erasure coding (aka raid 6). That will make it much faster and also its cut raw storage usage from 4x to 1.5x usable capacity

All mail is typically encrypted in transit with smtps, and Proton mail is encrypted at rest. But that’s true, it’s not e2ee, so I guess they could just scrape it all as it comes in, if they’re not doing so already.

Both companies are based in Europe though so I figure US spying laws don’t apply?

mailbox.org isn’t encrypted like Proton mail is. (Of course, Proton could steal your decryption password, but still)

You should use synapse. Dendrite is not intended for self-hosted homeservers. You will have an easier time with calling/rtc with synapse as well.

Here is a good example of how to set up a home server, which was shown off by the devs at fosdem last weekend:

https://github.com/element-hq/element-docker-demo

Of the services OP is asking about, I’ve only run Lemmy, but I will say that running fediverse services are quite advanced, which is exactly what k8s is made for - Running advanced web applications.

I’m firmly on the “k8s at any scale” team. If you can figure out how to run the k3s install command and are willing to look at some yaml documentation, you will have a much easier time setting up database and networking, running backups, porting your infrastructure to other providers, and maintaining everything, than with legacy control panels or docker compose. The main reason why Docker Compose is so much more accessible for self-hosters is because of the quantity of noob-focused documentation for Docker Compose, But learning either system requires learning the same concepts of containers, IP adresses, storage, etc. Docker Compose also has some disk and networking shortcuts for single-server workloads, but they also have their downsides (what is a macvlan?).

The main reason why I think Kubernetes is critical for this specific workload is the number of production-critical databases that OP will need to run. OP will be running something like 4-8 postgres databases, with high uptime and 100% durability requirements. Trying to do that manually with Docker compose just isn’t feasible unless you’re willing to code. Kubernetes makes all of that automated with CNPG. See how easy it is to create a database and have automated backups to S3 with Kubernetes

The biggest challenge for kubernetes is probably that the smaller applications don’t come with example configs for Kubernetes. I only see mastodon having one officially. Still, I’ve provided my config for Lemmy, and there are docker containers available for Friendica and mbin (though docker isn’t officially supported for these two). I’m happy to help give yaml examples for the installation of the applications.

I would recommend installing k3s and cnpg on the VPS. These will make it easier to run the various containers and databases you will need to run lemmy, etc. This is the standard way that big companies run servers in 2025, and it’s 100% portable to any server/hosting company just through copying and pasting the yaml files (like docker compose).

https://docs.k3s.io/quick-start

https://cloudnative-pg.io/documentation/1.25/quickstart/

Make sure you save backups of your VPS, and use object storage to backup your databases.

I have example kubernetes configuration for lemmy on my Git. It doesn’t use any volumes/local-storage, all user data is saved into either the database or object storage, to make it cheap and easy to backup.

I’m a professional DevOps engineer, so I work with hosting every day. Let me know if you have any questions or want advice.

Ah, fair. I guess it makes sense that Wall Street is questioning the need for these expensive blackwell gpus when the hopper gpus are already so good?

Nvidia cards were the only GPUs used to train DeepSeek v3 and R1. So, that narrative still superficially holds. Other stocks like TSMC, ASML, and AMD are also down in pre-market.

Bizarre story. China building better LLMs and LLMs being cheaper to train does not mean that nVidia will sell less GPUs when people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump can’t shut up about how important “AI” is.

I’m all for the collapse of the AI bubble, though. It’s cool and all that all the bankers know IT terms now, but the massive influx of money towards LLMs and the datacenters that run them has not been healthy to the industry or the broader economy.

It all makes sense now!

Elon Musk thinks he’s very important