Comment by 😺 blurrycat

=> Re: "Urgh, my capsule is down thanks to Oracle's free tier cloud..." | In: u/sugar

Fly.io also offers free shared compute, and I think it should be possible to host a Gemini capsule on it (I haven't completely looked into it, but it seems like custom ports are supported so I don't see why it wouldn't work). I might actually try this myself :)

=> 😺 blurrycat

2023-07-21 · 2 years ago

4 Later Comments ↓

=> ❤️ sugar [OP] · 2023-07-22 at 00:13:

Oh gosh thank you @michaelnordmeyer and @blurrycat, I'll definitely look at both of those! I didn't know Google had free, and aws suspended my account then permanently deleted it without an option for recovery? I don't know why, and I'm definitely not keen on making a new Amazon account

Thank you so much!

=> 😺 blurrycat · 2023-07-22 at 19:45:

So I got a simply Gemini server running on fly.io, it's not ideal as it's currently serving a static file baked into the container, but I think I might have a solution for that, to allow updating content without having to deploy the whole server again. Anyway, it seems to be working (although with IPv6-only given the free tier [apparently shared IPv4 addresses limit you to HTTP/HTTPS ports only, so I only allocated an IPv6 to my "app" as dedicated IPv4 are definitely not free]). Might be a solution after all!

=> — Link to the server here

=> ❤️ sugar [OP] · 2023-07-23 at 03:43:

sigh, so the option i didn't talk about was self-hosting. we do have a proxmox server, but it's almost entirely inhouse servers that we don't access from outside. So I just caved and set up a VM there and I'm back online, same address, same certificate:

=> — gem.lizsugar.me

Just slightly annoyed I have to punch more holes in my firewall 😪

=> 🦁 Houjimmy · 2024-06-15 at 09:03:

I'm struggling trying to set up my own capsule on a raspberry pi. I had everything working yesterday but today somehow I lost everything for no reason. I'm too tired to get this shit together again, too much effort.

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=> ❤️ sugar

Urgh, my capsule is down thanks to Oracle's free tier cloud service being jank as hell. Per [gemini link] alls I gotta do is rebuild the instance and I can use the same boot volume and stay within the free tier now that my trial is up. Except I'm getting: Out of capacity for shape VM.Standard.A1.Flex in availability domain AD-1. So now I gotta either wait until it's free, or destroy my boot volume (I have a local backup of the relevant dirs) and move to a new AD. I'm gonna go do...

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