@…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ jesuisatire bitPickup

This a a pretty good tutorial from @Hank G ☑️ for ubuntu:

https://www.nequalsonelifestyle.com/2022/07/30/creating-friendica-server-ubuntu/
It also covers some security - which is great.

You can try Friendica on a 1C,1G,25GB setup but you will run into some shortages pretty fast.

@…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ jesuisatire bitPickup
If you want, i can provide you a proper vps without any cost for one year (so you have time to try out) but it is ubuntu :)

@…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ jesuisatire bitPickup
Actually it would be a 4 Core CPU, 8 GB Ram with 300GB NVME Disk - unlimited traffic.

I had a 6-core 12-thread server with 128GB and 1TB NVME not enough, moved to a 10-core 20-thread 5Ghz machine with 256GB. With 6-core there was always a backlog in the worker queue.

10-core 20-thread 5Ghz machine with 256GB

What precisely are you running on this machine that it'd need such much resources?

Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Yacy, Nextcloud, about 100 virtual domains, a similiar number of WordPress sites, our own website, and personal websites for around 500 people, we do not prune history for any of these sites and right now there is about 2-1/2 years of friendica history. Friendica currently has around 2600 users.

A couple of points, about half the memory of this machine is in use and half is just being buffer and cache, and of memory in use Yacy eats about 99 GB of it. If you do not allow the max yacy can allocate to be allocated to it, then it locks up and dies. The memory that isn't in use though is not unimportant. By allowing the machine to cache a large amount of data, it speeds it up considerably, memory is considerably faster even than flash let alone rotary disk. With Linux, from a performance perspective memory is really your friend and you can never have too much.

@Nanook @Andy H3
Im running my Friendica Instance on a D´dedicated Server - Amd Ryzen 9 Pro 3900, 12 Cores, 24 Threads with 960 GB NVMe and 128 GB RAM.
SOMETIMES - when contact discovery is running, even that machine has a good amount of load.

@helpers @admins @admin

i run my 40 people instance in a qemu kvm virtual machine on an older hetzner server together with a few other webserver and mailserver virtual machines, it has access to 4 cpu cores, 4gb ram and 100gb of storage space on an ssd. i did not enable remote contact fetch, as that filled up the harddisk quite quickly when i tried it, and also created a lot of workload on the server.

Please consider our services:

https://www.eskimo.com/services/virtual-private-servers/

We also operate a shared web server that may be more appropriate for your needs in that it is quite robust with a 10-core 20-thread I9-10900K clocked at 5Ghz, (it is actually variable but Linux is set to performance mode so it spends the majority of that time at 5Ghz and cooling is adequate to support that), 256GB of RAM, and all disk including the root partition, is RAIDed. The root partition and most non-long term storage is SSD. There is both a mariadb and a postgresql server available, and many languages.

We also offer shell accounts on a variety of Linux distributions with the ability to get a full remote desktops with a variety of desktops like mate, gnome, kde, and others.

We operate free fediverse serves, which include https://friendica.eskimo.com/, https://hubzilla.eskimo.com/, https://mastodon.eskimo.com/ (all message sites), and https://yacy.eskimo.com/ (a federated search engine) and https://nextcloude.eskimo.com/ (a free cloud service).
https://www.eskimo.com/services/

Operating these free services costs money so we much appreciate it when you help support us by using some of our Paid Services.

Thank you, I apologize for the downtime tonight, something went south with the device drivers we were using for the Ethernet tonight. Around 9:30 the machine
spontaneously unloaded them or so it seemed. When I tried to load them it said
invalid arguments. Thing is I have no arguments just the default. I was using
a 6.1.57 kernel. I tried installing the 6.2.x driver that is shipped with Ubuntu
22.04, that loaded and ran, not ideally tuned but the device drivers worked in it.
We are running this way because our old router (a Ubiquiti Edgerouter 3, crapped
out (the third one to do so) and it was getting ready to be replaced with a Dream
Machine Pro, but the software on the DRM Pro is just shit and would not do some
things we needed to do, for example, it would not route without also performing NAT, changing the originating address to addresses interface, it would not use a real subnet, it used something it called virtual subnets which ate up six addresses out of every class C. I did not feel like readdressing a bunch of machines; so I configured a Linux box to work as a router in the meantime while we obtain a suitable replacement. I purchased a Juniper ACX1100 to replace it but I have to learn the Junipers command syntax and general operation before I can place it into service.

update on this specific request of mine:

In the end I managed to get my hands on a ubuntu 22.04.02LTS.

I used the refereed tutorial by @Hank G ☑️ to set it up:
https://www.nequalsonelifestyle.com/2022/07/30/creating-friendica-server-ubuntu/

Now it's a ubuntu 22.04.03LTS

I just ran thru the instructions and executed them and apparently everything worked fine and friendica 2023.05 (stable) is awaiting installation.

The difference in my case is that the idea is to move a (new) friendica instance (2023.05) I created in a BETA testing by a hoster that abandoned his intent to offer hosting for friendica to this new hosting.

The difference in the installation process as described by HankG as of now was that I couldn't setup completely the certbot part as the actual domain (tupambae.org) is running right now with that other hosting provider.

letsencrypt wrote:

Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to verify the temporary Apache configuration changes made by Certbot. Ensure that the listed domains point to this Apache server and that it is accessible from the internet.
Some challenges have failed.

I just did the whole installation process being simply connected with the IP over SSH.

I skipped the part:

CREATE DATABASE friendicadb;
CREATE USER 'friendica'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
GRANT ALL ON friendicadb.* TO 'friendica'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

The part:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default-le-ssl.conf
created an empty file as the certbot instalation wasn't completed fully.
I created that file using the example given in the tutorial, adding the domain name that will be used.

What I wonder now:
How do I upload the DB I will have to grab from the old provider and upload to the new setup?
How do I change the password for the DB?
Is there a way to also change the name of the existing DB?

My access is over SSH with puTTy created public/private keys, no password.
Can I create sFTP access with for example filezilla and if so how?