mastodon.ar.al is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
This is my personal fediverse server.

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I hope I never have to rely on my Mastodon instance in an emergency because given the state of my Sidekiq queue, I’d likely have been dead for several hours before anyone even hears my cry for help :)

(I say this with a smile but it’s actually really quite concerning that I can’t rely on it being real-time. Going to have to see what I can do about it. Can’t really afford to spend more than the ~€50/month I’m spending on my instance of one and my posts are routinely delayed by hours these days.)

Aral Balkan

Yeah, I’m going to have to figure something out because this just isn’t working for me.

(You guys will likely get this sometime tomorrow or over the weekend.)

*smh*

@aral damn mate! wth is going on in there? any clue what those spikes are?

@aral I run my own mastodon server (on a raspberry pi!) and when I’ve had spikes like this I found it was because sidekiq thought that some instances could not be reached. Turns out it was a DNS error so I set the OS to use 8.8.8.8 as its DNS server and the errors sorted themselves out when I got sidekiq to retry the backlog. As sudo look in file /etc/resolv.conf to change DNS server.