Its been a few weeks since I announced I was building an IPFS server to support the Dtube network. Its up and mostly running, though had to be rebuilt once already due to mistakenly installing Apache and was unable to get nginx to work at all in the first build. Thanks @gray00 @techcoderx and @vaultec for the help with guidance on building the first and then second attempt at running a IPFS server.

After rebuilding I can now get to my own uploader and use a Bot on discord to add videos I upload to d.tube to the community server for better redundancy. Running Go-IPFS I have over 100 connections and have pinned 19 videos, and seems to help my videos run smoother and for longer.

Though I am still having issues with the OneLoveDtubeUploader. seems larger videos over 300MB do not upload and I must use d.tube to still get my videos on the IPFS network. Once they are on there I can propagate them working with OneLoveDtube group and running bot commands.

I am told by the creator of the uploader its an nginx misconfiguration. But he has looked at my config and could not find anything wrong, so my next guess is my server does not have enough memory. A few minutes after the upload is complete and ffmpeg starts up, my memory goes from about 700MB used all the way up to 1.99GB and then I get the 502 error. As I only have a 2GB OpenVZ server, which has become inadequate it would seem.

This is when the video is processed and rendered after it being fully uploaded which is quite cpu and memory intensive. And due to my VPS's architecture a swap file is not supported. Due to this resource usage I think ffmpeg is using up all the memory and halting when no more is left. In this case I may need to move to another provider that has KVM VPS's that support swap files or just more RAM in general. Or need to find a way to limit ffmpegs RAM usage.

My next server may be a Kimsufi server, maybe a KS-3 which has twice the RAM my Time4VPS server has. And since its KVM I can use a swap file if need be.

Ive learned alot navigating Ubuntu and using a headless operating system. Setting up certificates, a web server using nginx and having a nodejs backend running a simple website really gave me some confidence to keep trying. I am glad I have been working with masternodes, IPFS servers using MongoDB and LBRY using MySQL servers as its been expanding my knowledge of Unix and making me more comfortable every day. Using tools like Putty and WinSCP are great tools I use to manage my servers and always finding new tools for better usage. Its only been a about a year working with these systems, so excited to see what the future brings.

When I get my uploader working and pinning set up I also want to get some visualizations of my server stats. Maybe some kind of server monitor tool so I can show its progress in usage. So lots planned but I may need to move providers before making any big changes.

Thanks to the OneLoveDtube Discord such as @d00k13 @deepsouthpiddlin @cityofstars @jrawsthorne and of course mentioned earlier @gray00 @techcoderx and @vaultec for your support, patience and hours of time helping me get situated with the server and some cases over and over again troubleshooting.

Happy to be part of the Community Node club.

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