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I use managed switches for this, L2 units are fine if you let opnsense do all the inter-VLAN routing. All network devices go into the switches which are connected to the servers. As CptKriechstrom mentioned my PON or modem is connected to a switch and is tagged into a VLAN, which enters opnsense through that specific virtual interface.

If you want to take it even further a fully virtualized Opnsense with Proxmox is amazing. Your router can float between cluster nodes and each VLAN becomes a virtual interface in the hypervisor. What still blows my mind is how I can migrate the instance to a second server and bring the original server down for maintenance without my users noticing a thing.

Since you're releasing this under GPLv3 this is indeed open source. Having multiple license options does not affect this.

It certainly looks like it if you check their discussion board.

Likely it's hosted on the same infrastructure. The general recommendation is to host the status page on different provider so it's more likely to stay up.

The issue with AMD and AI is, as always, the software stack. Even if the hardware is great ROCM simply doesn't have industry traction and accessiblity.

If you ask me to make an account before I can see your content (even if it looks interesting) that's a turn off and I'll go somewhere else. Maybe have a button at the top that says "explore as guest" or something like that?

Also you should advertise that this is an open-source project on the landing page, as that may cause more people to be interested in trying it out.

I don't like the centralization of Cloudflare, but it's the only way I can host public web pages out of my homelab with a DSL connection. I would rather have a CDN than put my content on a VPS as the servers remain 100% under my control and I can change providers anytime.

If we look at this from a technical perspective, what is the cost of running such a service?

Something like Facebook obviously costs a lot more to run, as it stores photos and video and also provides each user with an individually generated feed. In contrast HN is rather lightweight and basically serves mostly static cachable content to all users. I believe it was stated somewhere that the entire HN comfortably runs on a 64GB 4/8 bare metal server. On the extreme side I host my personal static web site on my home DSL connection fronted by Cloudflare, as the CDN does all the work and the bandwidth used is minimal.

To the people running these new communities the software cost is low as they're based off an open-source service of choice (Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.), and as we saw on Reddit moderation can be done by volunteers. Are the remaining costs for admins, hosting, etc. feasible for a non-profit with some user donations? And can we create more efficient platforms with a plainer style that will minimize the server and electricity costs?

Yeah as a long-time user I was really hoping for that myself, or at least have some sort of compromise. Certainly not that trainwreck of an AMA.

Wouldn't that be Hetzner?

It's not easy to move a group to a new platform, and there's very little people using Lemmy currently. The thing about Reddit despite its flaws is that it allows access to many large communities with a single account.