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Hosting Mbin (fedia.io)
submitted 4 hours ago by paige@fedia.io to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Mbin merging the world of threaded discussion and microblogging makes a lot of sense to me, but on the latest FiresideFedi Jerry mentioned that it was the most challenging thing to host and hinted that it was still very much in development. Wondering what peoples experiences have been trying to get it up and running? What’s the stability and resource usage been like? Also it seems the developers of Mbin don’t have their own general instance, which is concerning to me because that helps a project monitor stability and optimize resource usage.

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[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

The experience for setting up an Mbin server has greatly improved with the latest Docker setup rework. So now, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to get a simple Mbin setup running.

As for resource usage, my server (kbin.earth) doesn't have anywhere close to the user base fedia.io does, but I've been able to run my server (which has ~150 active and ~600 total users) on a decently low-resource server. In the past month or so, it's been a server with 16 vCPUs and 32 GB RAM, but previously it was running on 8 vCPUs and 16 GB RAM (had to upgrade due to DDOS).

I've been running my server for about 1.5 years (since December 2023), and most of the time it is a set-and-forget type of thing, of course, until you need to update things or troubleshoot some issue. But overall, it's been working great, and when you do run into an issue, the Mbin devs are usually quick to help troubleshoot with you.

It is true that Mbin doesn't have an "official" instance, but there are multiple servers that are run by the Mbin devs, including thebrainbin.org, gehirneimer.de, and kbin.melroy.org (and kbin.earth if you count me).

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 32 minutes ago (1 children)

had to upgrade due to DDOS

If you keep getting DDoS attacks, then I'd recommend getting DDoS protection from your hosting provider, or using Cloudflare. A lot of hosting providers can provide DDoS protection if you pay a bit extra per month.

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 1 points 29 minutes ago

Luckily, I was able to mitigate it within the week it started, by setting up specific Cloudflare firewall rules. I just haven't remembered to downgrade the server since it happened :)

[–] paige@fedia.io 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for these great details. Happy to hear the devs are actually behind a range of servers.

What has their development cycle been like and the rate which they implement changes? I've been using it for a couple of days and have been impressed with some things, I wasn't expecting the UI to be as polished, but then I've been wondering about the rate which features have been added or issues fixed?

[–] jwr1@kbin.earth 1 points 15 minutes ago

I'll say within the past few months there hasn't been as much activity as there usually has been, so there's not like a lot of new features coming in like there is for PieFed. Part of that is likely due to the fact that Mbin's low on devs ATM, especially since one of the previous devs went AWOL. Still, I'll say Mbin is already quite polished and works well, even if the dev team isn't as active as they once were.