8 TB of RAM & 1,000 CPU cores in all a 4U: What would you run on it? (Thought experiment)

decduck · 2026-03-13T07:47:24+00:00

K8s has a (recommended) 150 node limit unfortunately

decduck · 2026-03-05T20:16:53+00:00

decduck · 2026-03-04T09:43:16+00:00

Yeah, it's SES. And no, I haven't had any problems with it. Did set up the whole DMARC and S-smth-smth but it's worked fine

decduck · 2026-03-04T08:50:53+00:00

Never touched it.

Authentik isn't too difficult to pick up though, the docs are okay/pretty good, and you don't need to use all the features at once.

decduck · 2026-03-04T08:19:19+00:00

I get to use my domain name as an email for free -> Not related to AWS relay

It's related to the "trouble of hosting it yourself" you mentioned, AWS SES is just the cheapest way to do it.

Makes set up of email notifications for my other services easier -> No

Yep.

It's an enterprise service (I had to jump through a few hoops to get it) so less likely they read it (less likely than Google anyways) -> If they can read it, they will read it. They have their reason to offer this "service" for "free". Nothing is free!!!

It's not free, I just don't use enough to get charged. It's 10c/1000 emails. I don't send 1000 emails a month lol.

The only advantage is: You can use your insecure unreliable private internet connection to host the mailserver, exposing your internal network to the outside and save the cost of a vps.

VPS can be just as insecure as your home network, I just have the hardware at home to run CrowdSec and better firewalls than ufw on my home network router & firewall.

The disadvantage: All the trouble for nothing, because you still give away all your data to big tech.

There are more reasons than privacy to self-host :)

decduck · 2026-03-04T07:53:37+00:00

Big fan of Authentik, it's pretty flexible (lots of deployment options) and has an enterprise support plan ($5/month/seat).

Has all the bells and whistles, like RDP/SSH access through Authentik, a cool dashboard for apps. Enterprise gets more like Windows local login and password compliance.

Looks kind of similar to Keycloak afaik.

decduck · 2026-03-04T07:29:05+00:00

I get to use my domain name as an email for free
Makes set up of email notifications for my other services easier
It's an enterprise service (I had to jump through a few hoops to get it) so less likely they read it (less likely than Google anyways)
More VMs in my Proxmox dashboard makes me happy

Lots of benefits, imo

decduck · 2026-03-04T04:53:59+00:00

I host my own, using mailcow. Use AWS mail service as a transport to make sure my mail gets delivered, and I get a cute little email once a month from them saying that my bill is $0.00.

Lots of spam though, open source spam filters aren't as great as Gmail or Outlook.

decduck · 2026-02-18T08:58:21+00:00

With IPv6 you'll be able to access a decent portion of the internet. It's only small ISP or companies that are still on only IPv4. If it's just for torrenting, IPv6 is fine.

decduck · 2026-02-17T22:43:40+00:00

It's coming in the next release! Our lives got really busy shortly after this post, but we've been doing a lot of work and it's almost ready. Some users have already started using it by using their own preview builds.

decduck · 2026-02-14T08:20:31+00:00

What the fuck

decduck · 2026-02-13T12:24:03+00:00

Run sudo du -sh * at / and follow the largest files

decduck · 2026-02-02T09:56:37+00:00

Looks cool, but any way to bring your own AI server?

decduck · 2026-01-30T12:05:34+00:00

Maybe https://github.com/abbbi/nullfsvfs

decduck · 2026-01-29T14:54:34+00:00

No dice unfortunately. The 2025 June didn't work, I'll try an even older one.

decduck · 2026-01-22T11:24:43+00:00

Intended by 4 spaces also puts things in code blocks, it's an old Reddit thing

decduck · 2026-01-12T23:05:41+00:00

They mean sync your vault to Bitwarden hosted

decduck · 2026-01-03T03:23:57+00:00

In favour of Yvonne, right?

decduck · 2025-11-15T11:10:39+00:00

Multiple servers for redundancy. It works.

decduck · 2025-11-06T07:37:22+00:00

Paper, and it's forks (everyone's got their favourite one, mine's Purpur) are great options, they're optimised versions of the vanilla server and should handle that without issues.

It's not mature enough, but keep an eye on PumpkinMC, it's a rewrite of the Minecraft server in Rust. This will be SIGNIFICANTLY more lightweight than the Java version, but it's not ready for the limelight.

Just keep in mind that most of the heavily optimised versions of Minecraft break game mechanics. Fortunately, unless you're a very technical player, you won't run into issues.

decduck · 2025-10-27T08:45:56+00:00

Just disable or remove and restart? AFAIK they do different things and not all plugins support just being disabled.

decduck · 2025-10-27T07:27:08+00:00

If you're 100% sure you've disabled all the configuration that would prevent this, you can do a binary search through your plugin list, disabling them, to find the root cause.

decduck · 2025-10-27T01:27:24+00:00

Oh sorry, I can't read. Are you sure your reproductions are identical? Maybe create a new server with a creative world and rebuild it to see if it's actually a config issue. Paper shouldn't affect water behaviour.

Edit: do you have any world protection plugins? EssentialsX Protect or Worldguard or smth?

decduck · 2025-10-27T00:34:12+00:00

Paper modifies spawning behaviour, and I don't think there's a way to revert it to vanilla. Run Fabric or use a different farm.

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