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Andrew Escobar (Andres)'s avatar
commented on issue #88 "Define bill payment process" at social.coop / tech / operations

Credit card is too much of an admin. burden for our fiscal host, but primary accounts like Hetzner can perhaps be funded 1 year in advance and moni...

Andrew Escobar (Andres)'s avatar
commented on issue #88 "Define bill payment process" at social.coop / tech / operations

I would like FWG take on this role, but FWG (or individual FWG members) would need delegated billing-only access to Hetzner, Cloudflare, etc....

Null Flancian's avatar
commented on issue #75 "Test restores for social.coop mastodon instance" at social.coop / tech / operations

Our indexes take up >40Gib currently, maybe we could drop some old ones to save space. Attaching a full list of indexes with create statements and ...

Null Flancian's avatar
commented on issue #75 "Test restores for social.coop mastodon instance" at social.coop / tech / operations

Next step: make further progress on setting up alpha.social.coop to 100% confirm we can turn up a new instance using just this backup.

Null Flancian's avatar
commented on issue #75 "Test restores for social.coop mastodon instance" at social.coop / tech / operations

OK, that took hours and was not successful at all -- but now we know ;)...

Null Flancian's avatar
commented on issue #75 "Test restores for social.coop mastodon instance" at social.coop / tech / operations

I left that running overnight, now I have a full database restored:...

Null Flancian's avatar
commented on issue #75 "Test restores for social.coop mastodon instance" at social.coop / tech / operations

Some instructions related to backups inline:...

Null Flancian's avatar
commented on issue #75 "Test restores for social.coop mastodon instance" at social.coop / tech / operations

Hi there! Thank you Dan for cross-posting the update. Dumping some more notes here....

Null Flancian's avatar
commented on issue #89 "Get a new VPS for alpha.social.coop" at social.coop / tech / operations

Great, thanks!...

Dan Phiffer's avatar
commented on issue #75 "Test restores for social.coop mastodon instance" at social.coop / tech / operations

Copy/pasting some highlights from Matrix tech chat channel, where @flancian is sharing updates about a db restore:...

Andrew Escobar (Andres)'s avatar
commented on issue #89 "Get a new VPS for alpha.social.coop" at social.coop / tech / operations

Re: hosting (our biggest expense)...

Andrew Escobar (Andres)'s avatar
opened issue #91 "email delivery: DKIM & DMARC" at social.coop / tech / operations
Andrew Escobar (Andres)'s avatar
commented on issue #87 "Possible email SPF problem" at social.coop / tech / operations

We should ensure DKIM is working and establish a DMARC policy, which is increasingly required. (SPF is actually not as critical these days. Mailchi...

Dan Phiffer's avatar
commented on issue #89 "Get a new VPS for alpha.social.coop" at social.coop / tech / operations

Here’s another update from Chris Croome at Webarchitects:...

Dan Phiffer's avatar
commented on issue #87 "Possible email SPF problem" at social.coop / tech / operations

Fixed!

Dan Phiffer's avatar
closed issue #87 "Possible email SPF problem" at social.coop / tech / operations
Ed Summers's avatar
commented on issue #11 "transfer domain to social.coop control" at social.coop / tech / operations

We are able to pay the DNS registration going forward using credentials for admin.gandi.net in our pass database.

Ed Summers's avatar
closed issue #11 "transfer domain to social.coop control" at social.coop / tech / operations
Null Flancian's avatar
commented on issue #87 "Possible email SPF problem" at social.coop / tech / operations

To clarify, in the end we went with:...

Null Flancian's avatar
commented on issue #87 "Possible email SPF problem" at social.coop / tech / operations

Discussed during the 2024-11-04 meeting; we went into Cloudflare and applied Dan's proposed fix. Now to test :)