Moving DMV.community home 0 ▲ Cool As Heck 1 hour ago · 7 min read1408 words · Tech · hide · 0 comments I moved my Mastodon server into my house DMV.community has lived on a Vultr VPS for a while now. This week I moved it onto the server that sits in my house and already runs a few other things I self-host. It's a Ryzen 7 3800X with 32 GB of RAM and a fast NVMe drive, which is a lot more machine than the VPS ever was, and I'm already paying for the electricity. It went pretty well. It also went sideways in a few fun ways I didn't see coming. The move itself The actual cutover was the boring part, which is what you want. Stop Mastodon on the VPS, pg_dump the database, restore it at home, start everything up, flip DNS. The plan budgeted 20 to 35 minutes of downtime for all of it. A few choices made that easy: Nothing is exposed from my house. Traffic comes in through a Cloudflare Tunnel, so there are no open ports on my router and nobody can see my home IP from the outside. Media stays in the cloud. Images and videos already lived in an S3 bucket behind a CDN, so none of that moved. My… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.