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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 22:32:41 JST Aral Balkan

   • Fedora Project
   • Hetzner

   My yearly call out into the ether to see if @fedora and @Hetzner_Online can make CoreOS a first-class citizen on Hetzner.

   https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/1324

   As the #SmallWeb comes closer to being a thing with the launch of Domain this year, I’d really love for it to run on maintenance-free auto-updating instances instead of Ubuntu. But it looks like I’m forced to go with it as I can’t otherwise find affordable VPS hosting that can create an instance as quickly as Hetzner can.

   #CoreOS #fedora #hetzner

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 22:53:13 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Fedora Project
     • Major Hayden 🤠
     • Hetzner

     @major @fedora @Hetzner_Online Thanks, appreciate the link; sadly not something I can base a production system that launches instances for others on. (Much less a free and open source one that I hope others will also be running to do the same thing in different parts of the world. Basically, I’m building a tool to enable people/organisations to easily become Small Web* hosts so we don’t end up being the only one/another centre, once it launches.)

     * https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/

   • Major Hayden 🤠 (major@social.lol)'s status on Saturday, 10-Feb-2024 22:53:14 JST Major Hayden 🤠

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     • Fedora Project
     • Hetzner

     @aral @fedora @Hetzner_Online Here's a workaround in the meantime: https://major.io/p/deploy-fedora-coreos-in-hetzner-cloud/

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 00:23:03 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Sexybiggetje🐖
     • Fedora Project
     • Hetzner

     @martijn @fedora @Hetzner_Online Well I have to start somewhere. The goal is to support other service providers in the future. But right now nothing else I’ve seen comes close to the value and performance Hetzner offer. And we need both to get the Small Web off the ground as a tiny not-for-profit with no resources.

   • Sexybiggetje🐖 (martijn@ieji.de)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 00:23:04 JST Sexybiggetje🐖

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     • Fedora Project
     • Hetzner

     @aral @fedora @Hetzner_Online but half of the decentralised web is centralised at hetzner already 🫢

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 00:26:45 JST Aral Balkan

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     • AlexSa :unverified:

     @netalexx Can’t do €39/mo for a 2 vCPU instance when it’s €3.85/mo at Hetzner. No one will pay €45 for a Small Web place (if we were to charge a tiny markup to try and make ourselves sustainable) but they might pay €10.

   • AlexSa :unverified: (netalexx@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 00:26:46 JST AlexSa :unverified:

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     @aral Have you checked Bahnhof? https://bahnhof.cloud/en/

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 02:17:07 JST Aral Balkan

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     • AlexSa :unverified:

     @netalexx Thanks, will note that down and do so. Appreciate it :)

   • AlexSa :unverified: (netalexx@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 02:17:08 JST AlexSa :unverified:

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     @aral Talk to Jon Karlung, VD +46 (0)76 111 01 60
     jon.karlung@bahnhof.net about Small Web and build what you need for you and Small Web.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 02:19:58 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • fuzzyface

     @fuzzyface Thanks. Not sure we can make it work for €5/mo but that’s the point I’d love to see it at too. Who knows, maybe with deals with VPS providers in the future. (Or if folks like NLnet, etc., actually start supporting us with public funds in the future to subsidise it.)

   • fuzzyface (fuzzyface@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 02:19:59 JST fuzzyface

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     @aral Really liking what you're doing (still). Happy to be a beta tester if you ever need any. I've tech savvy enough to know how to try but dumb enough to be able to break anything. Happy to ~£5pcm to have an instance to play with when you're ready.