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How to set up a decentralized game/chat server (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 days ago by mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've been kicking around the idea of running a server for games and chat woth some of my friends, but worry about everyone getting cut off when there's a disruption.

I've started looking into kubernetes out of curiosity, and it seems like we could potentially set up a cluster with master nodes at 3+ locations to hose whatever game server or chat server that we want with 100% uptime, solving my concerns.

Am I misunderstanding the kubernetes documentation, and this is just a terrible idea? Or am I on the right track?

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[–] papertowels@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fair points, it is unfortunate that decentralized can mean self hosting your own alternative service or hosting a service in a distributed fashion.

The situation still could've been resolved without insulting someone who wanted to be helpful, but was maybe not careful.
Or implying that their behavior reflects poorly on the entire blahaj community. That community don't mean any harm.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Or implying that their behavior reflects poorly on the entire blahaj community

That user is a different person from the first one that responded.

The blahaj user's only contribution to the conversation was that snarky comment, and I brought it up because I've noticed a few users from that instance do that this past week, and not just to me. Like I said, I expect that behavior from hexbear, as blahaj users are usually nice to interact with.

And on the blowing up at the original commenter, I'm tired of people using me for their own self-gratification. And if you're not actually reading someone's question before saying something, that's generally what it is. Hopefully they learned to not make that mustake in the future