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BSD Cafe friends connecting to the Mastodon instance from the American continent – as a test of the new routed setup, I’ve installed a reverse proxy in the Western United States, both in IPv4 and IPv6.
It routes traffic via Wireguard to the original server, so there’s no particular local caching, at least for now.
The original DNS TTL was set to 12 hours (while it'll be 5 minutes for this new ipv4 and ipv6, as it's a test), so some of you might still connect to the Finnish IP for a little while longer.
The DNS will return the American IP when the connection is closer to it, and I’d be curious to know if you notice any performance differences or if everything remains the same as before.

Thanks for the feedback!

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I've migrated Redis to KeyDB and separated the volatile cache from Sidekiq jobs and Mastodon timelines. While this might not result in a performance boost due to the low load, it will enable some exciting new features (spoiler: KeyDB supports master-master replication).

Stay tuned!

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In the morning of the 31/07/2024, starting around 08:30 (CEST), I will be making some changes to the routing of BSD Cafe. This means there will be service interruptions.
I will post updates on https://status.bsd.cafe and will notify you when the work is complete.
Stay tuned!

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In the past few weeks, I've been reflecting on the current infrastructure behind the BSD Cafe. I'm satisfied with it, and it's stable (all services are accessible via IPv6, etc.), but in the original vision of my project, there were some different choices that I haven't implemented yet to maintain consistency with the available hardware.

Therefore, there will be some underlying changes (some already in testing), which I will obviously share both here and on the related wiki page (currently a bit outdated compared to the current setup).
You won't see anything "at a glance" (the best technical changes are those that aren't immediately visible), but I believe they will be appreciated.

Stay tuned!

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Dear friends of #BSDCafe,

It’s time to upgrade Mastodon to v4.3.0.

I’m still unsure when I’ll be able to do it, as I want to ensure I have enough free time to manage any potential issues. I’ll perform a full PostgreSQL dump, take a complete snapshot of all the jails, and document the progress - should any issues arise - on the BSD Cafe Status page (https://status.bsd.cafe).

I expect to proceed by the end of the week. I apologize for not being able to provide much advance notice, but I’ll do my best to give at least half a day's notice.

@stefano

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