So uh good luck to the CNN/WaPo/NYT devs tasked with setting up mastodon servers tomorrow I suppose
@jimcarroll @leigh check out @TucsonSentinel and @TexasObserver they've both been doing this for weeks already!
@fack @jimcarroll @leigh @TucsonSentinel @TexasObserver
It took like a half-hour of work — and only that much b/c I screwed up some prefs and had to edit S3 settings a few times.
@DSmith_Tucson @fack @leigh @TucsonSentinel @TexasObserver
It's not complicated at all to set up your own instance. And wonderful to meet you folks - pioneers in every stretch of the imagination!
@jimcarroll @fack @leigh @TucsonSentinel @TexasObserver
I hadn't poked at S3 settings for years, so getting the "bucket list" right took a few times. Hosting images on the same box (which I didn't want to do) would be dead simple — perhaps another service w/b less tweaky than Amazon
@DSmith_Tucson @jimcarroll @leigh @TucsonSentinel @TexasObserver I used cloudflare's R2 object storage myself, a lot simpler than S3 imo (but also significantly less featureful)
@fack @DSmith_Tucson @leigh @TucsonSentinel @TexasObserver
...with the added benefit of the Cloudflare firewall and DDos feature. Will have to look into this at some point!
@jimcarroll @fack @leigh @TucsonSentinel @TexasObserver
Been using #Cloudflare for years (near instant DNS changes are part of what made this so easy).
