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Call to Action: Fediverse Media Server
Preamble I am the “proud” owner of an overpowered Proxmox cluster hosted in colocation at an Australian data center. My cluster is two 2U AMD EPYC servers with a 1U IBM for backup (Only two of those servers have the blessing of the machine god).
Unit 0 is AMD EPYC 7642 (Rome Zen2) with 512GB of DDR4-3200 https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/epyc/7642 Unit 1 is AMD EPYC 7713 (Milan Zen3) with 256GB of DDR4-3200 https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/epyc/7713 Notice the unused memory and low CPU usage.I’ve been hosting Fediverse services such as Aus.Social and Pixelfed.au for the last 5 years, and I’ve been working hard to maintain the quality of service while lowing the total cost of ownership. Sadly I’m currently unable to offer this to anybody right now due to my primary mastodon instances remote media caching policy requirements. Right now storage is costing me around $150AUD a month… so if somebody can build me a media server I can deploy and use for all of my local Fediverse instances… I will give them a minimum of $3600AUD (2 years of Wasabi money) as a bounty once it’s in production!
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