cross-posted from: https://lemmyfly.org/post/354030

cross-posted from: https://lemmyfly.org/post/354024

Last months server costs was the first month payed for using donations: Thank you for that ! There is not enough balance for the next month(s) yet.

If you are using this server to browse the Fediverse, could you please help out ?

Just a euro or two per month, times many of you, would be more then enough !

The donations are help by the legal fiscal host Open Collective Europe - all reimbursements are fully transparent posted on the platform and payed out from there.

Thank you again for your consideration 🙏

cross-posted from: https://lemmyfly.org/post/273030

As you might understand, running the server costs real money. At the moment this comes down to +- 11,- EUR per month.

I would appreciate it if those who use this server to browse the fediverse would help out in sharing these costs. If every member would help out with a tiny amount, it would already be enough.

I've created an account on opencollective. Money donated will stay on their bank account, I will upload invoices expenses of the hosting provider, domain registrar to the platform so it is fully transparent on where the money is spent.

Thanks a lot for helping out !

https://opencollective.com/lemmyfly

I recently got the Q4XP and discovered Widerøe flies nice domestic routes in Norway. Perfect for a short 50min flight for example. I found widerøevirtual.online - a phpVms based VA. I liked what it offers: an overview of real life flights which you can choose to fly, helps you in creating a simbrief OFP. It seems a bit quiet here though, small group of members (which is nice I think) and you’ll have to wait on manual pirep approval. The VA seems new-ish, lets hope it grows a bit and becomes somewhat more active.

I’m also a member of klm-va.nl which is much more free: you can choose to fly real life scheduled flights (get more points for that) but you can just fly any dep-arr you like in whatever plane - and still get points for it.

I’ve also tried several VA’s based on the vamSys software - the most modern and solid build va-system I think. They’ve got some very active communities, which is also a very nice part of flying with a VA.

I’m wondering what others experiences are with flying on the sim with a virtual airline?

the diskspace on the server I'm using for lemmyfly.org is getting full (it was 40GB local volume, and it's at 80% now) I can get extra volumes at my hosting (Hetzner) but is it possible lemmy looks at different volumes for the volumes folder that contains pictrs, postgres and lemmy-ui ?

Or do I need to move the complete main lemmy folder to this other volume and run lemmy from there, leaving my system-volume unused for lemmy ?

Pay for Sendgrid (100 / day for free is not enough) VS set up your own email server?

For own email server, do you not get flagged a lot as spam ?

I've set registration to Require application again, don't like this bots creating accounts.

Also I'm running into email limitations. Using the Sendgrid Free plan of 100 emails per day, but if a couple of member have email notification on, I'm reaching that 100 very quickly. How do others handle the high email traffic ?

running a lemmy instance has learned me a lot about devops already!

I love playing around with this, the lemmy instance was a great reason. lemmyfly.org doesn't have a lot of traffic yet, I think it can handle some more. Currently running on 2 vcpu/4gb ram.

After chatting to my devops colleague at work I wanted to set up a Grafana dashboard with metrics on the server. Seems it's pretty pretty doable!

• I installed prometheus node_exporter on my lemmy server
• I created a second server at my VPS. Very cheap, and don't think I'll be running the Prometheus/Grafana 24/7 so I'll just create a snapshot of it, destroy the server and re-create when wanted
• Created an internal private network so the instances can communicate without exposing ports to the public
• Installed Prometheus on the new prometheus server
• Installed Grafana
• log in to Grafana, admin:admin then change password
• Go to the Grafana home dashboard, click on + sign and click on Import. In Import via grafana.com, put the dashboard id 1860 (preset for all prometheus node_exporter metrics) and click on Load.
• Done!

Last 2 hours in the garden with a beer on the side, WFH FTW

cross-posted from: https://lemmyfly.org/post/2382

thanks to @Hopfgeist@feddit.de for noticing www.lemmyfly.org was not secured and not pointing to the lemmy instance.

Checking the lemmy ansible files I saw your nginx configuration file is located in /etc/nginx/sites-available/[sitename].conf

To add a redirect for your www.[sitename, add: (lemmyfly.org example)

server {
  server_name www.lemmyfly.org;
  return 301 $scheme://lemmyfly.org$request_uri;
}

check your config with sudo nginx -t

restart nginx: sudo systemctl restart nginx