There was a big price increase a month or two ago that affected existing servers. I think this is recognizing that Hetzner just can’t acquire new servers (particularly memory) at anywhere close to what they could before. RAM prices are up about 400% in the past year and rising, and I think even server chassis and CPUs are being largely soaked up by the mesoscale datacenter builds.

Net net, this sucks. And my expectation is that Hetzner will still be the cheapest game in town by about the same percentages as before. It the costs keep going up, I think we will see the fediverse starting to struggle.

Between the absolute crush of bot registrations and the spiraling costs, I have been contemplating moving to a required donation for new accounts.

Turns out that wasn’t the problem. The problem was a bug in the lemmy release. I’ve been able to get that fixed now, though

ok, I found the problem. The latest version of lemmy required a change to the web server config, which I did, however I neglected to restart the web server so that config change could take effect. D’oh. amateur hour. I’m very sorry about that.

It seems to have broke after I upgraded to the latest version of lemmy. I will try to figure out why and fix it.

Gaming laptops are expensive and disposable. If I had it to do again, I think I’d go for a mini

I can increase that if you like.

Thank you!

Even better, the author just received a DMCA takedown notice from Burger King and the post is no longer available

Thanks. I am interested in hearing from the practitioners what they would like their CISO to know/be/do to be a better CISO

I’m thinking about getting back in the game. What does everyone thing a CISO should know? What makes a good CISO?

Hi all. It’s Jerry from the interview talking about infosec.exchange. I think it’s important to understand some apparently missing context in the discussions below. I was talking about a hypothetical future where we saw tens/hundreds of millions of active accounts on the fediverse. I don’t believe the current funding model can support that, and I also don’t think the “spin up your own host” model will work for the masses, either.

I host close to two dozen different fediverse services, from lemmy to mastodon to mbin to peertube and lots more, and all that takes some significant hardware to run at larger scales. My objective has been to provide a fast and reliable fediverse experience, and so I’ve focused more on that than on making my servers scream, and so I’ve landed on hosting the fleet on a series of Hetzner Dell servers with 10GB interfaces, and that is not cheap.

I am not sure if the “he” reference is me, but I did ask and people did step up to support the costs of running the instance.

Hey all, Jerry here (from the interview). Happy to answer any questions.

I’ve worked in all levels of management, including C-level at a Fortune 500 company, and I can tell you that from the perspective of the C level, the tools are a given. If the employees have complaints about the tools, the perception is that either the mid to lower level management or the employees are not competent and need to be replaced with ones that are able to deliver on the promise of the tools.

(I say this without judgement - most of the time it’s BS, some of the time it’s true)

What do yall think a CISO of today needs to know/understand?

good luck! I was an amazing day when I got my CISO position. It was an even better day when I left it :)

How do you validate the responses here?

I’m not sure what you mean?

Has anyone taken a course in FAIR? Wondering how useful it is…

Mbin performs quite well. I just applied the most recent update which removed mercure and it’s very fast now.

I was probably the most prominent person who runs both and had database issues with k/mbin. I am happy to say that those are well behind me, largely because of the skill and patience of the Mbin team helping me resolve them.