waow my website is visited more than I thought
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@luna
Also made the dashboard openly visible :3
https://goat.wolkenheim.eu/
Replying to @luna@fedi.mldchan.dev
@Wolkensteine The smaller VPS also runs extremely lightweight services or services that might use more bandwidth such as a copyparty server an all my Discord bots
Replying to @Wolkensteine@mastodon.wolkenheim.eu
@luna
Also that IS A LOT that you are hosting :3
Replying to @luna@fedi.mldchan.dev
@luna
You have many followys so the potential for quite a few of them wanting to see your website is well not low.
Replying to @Wolkensteine@mastodon.wolkenheim.eu
@Wolkensteine I can also see a lot of people coming from other platforms such as 88x31 clicks, YouTube, Discord and so on
Replying to @luna@fedi.mldchan.dev
@luna
You have that detailed tracking?
Mhhhm I should look at my webserver statistics for my Webpage again and see if Hetzners in built Bot blocking works. Last time I checked 90% of page visits were bots :/
Replying to @Wolkensteine@mastodon.wolkenheim.eu
@Wolkensteine I use self-hosted Umami, it tracks a lot of things
Replying to @luna@fedi.mldchan.dev
@luna
I've now set up Goatcounter because it is more lightweight than Unami. Interested in seeing what it will track, might remove it though later, liked having no JS at all on my page.
Replying to @luna@fedi.mldchan.dev
@luna
Likely unami can do more stuff than Goatcounter, but for me its enough to see general stuff :3
Also their tracker is like 1KiB of extra stuff to load which is basically nothing. The webserver itself uses only 66MiB which is also good considering I only have 4GiB on the VPS its running on alongside Masto, Uptime Kuma and an Etherpad server :3
Replying to @Wolkensteine@mastodon.wolkenheim.eu
@Wolkensteine yeah I built my server out of last gen components before memory skyrocketed in price so I have a beefy server where running something like umami doesn't really do anything alongside an MC server, Akkoma on fedi.mldchan.dev, Akkoma on the-wired.club, website, MC website, hedgedoc, XMPP, matrix, samba (local), mcaptcha, peertube, forgejo, 4 fedi bots, vaultwarden, ntfy, akabot.xyz website, immich
Replying to @luna@fedi.mldchan.dev
@luna
I am very happy about the VPS, it is one hosted by Hetzner and I only had good experiences with their support, although with new prices I'd not order another one, still on the old plan with 6€/mo instead of like a lot more.
Their webhosting plan is what got me there - 1,6€/mo with mail is great.
Would love to self host on own hardware but don't have static ips and don't want to use Cloudflare tunnels or similar.
Replying to @Wolkensteine@mastodon.wolkenheim.eu
@Wolkensteine I don't have a static IP either, I have a Wireguard tunnel instead, and either nginx or iptables rules to forward services to the internet
Replying to @luna@fedi.mldchan.dev
@luna
So you also have a small VPS or something that is the reverse proxy and sends it through WireGuard?
Have tried a similar thing, but found that to be sometimes unreliable due to ISP stuff / Internet outage at home.
Replying to @Wolkensteine@mastodon.wolkenheim.eu
@Wolkensteine Yeah I do, I do have unreliable internet as well sometimes but I set keepalive checks on wireguard to 5 seconds so it reconnects pretty quickly and usually I don't even notice it
Replying to @Wolkensteine@mastodon.wolkenheim.eu
@Wolkensteine yeah it may seem a lot but I only really access git.mldchan.dev or fedi.mldchan.dev, the rest of these services are for example bots on Discord or on fedi, or are accessed by an app so I never type in the URL or access them infrequently
Replying to @luna@fedi.mldchan.dev
@luna my old visitor counter broke when it was at ~500 about a year ago due to it being just a text file with a number in it, which was reset to 0 due to some bug that occured when the disk was full; i removed the counter since then and only fixed it 5 days ago, now its recording a timestamp of every visit in postgresql which allows me to visualize popularity of my site over time
see https://pleroma.laru.dsrv.x7q.eu/notice/B7zXTFnTRs3sVaAeUC
see https://pleroma.laru.dsrv.x7q.eu/notice/B7zXTFnTRs3sVaAeUC
pleroma.laru.dsrv.x7q.euLaru (@laru@pleroma.laru.dsrv.x7q.eu)my new visitor counter is so coolReplying to @laru@pleroma.laru.dsrv.x7q.eu
@laru I have a date-based view counter as well, it counts amount of visits per day, and a second table to not count one user twice (IP and expiry date table)
Replying to @luna@fedi.mldchan.dev
@luna oh i didnt wanna record peoples ips, i do deduplication too but by session rather than date, so someone visiting the site twice will only be counted twice if they close their browser between visits, this also ensures that only browsers get counted and curls/crawlers dont
basically it works like this:
1. is visitor cookie set ? proceed : set it to value a
2. send api request to get visitors
3. set cookie to value b
the api request will only count your visit if the cookie is set to value a, which only happens once per session unless you clear your cookies
basically only a client that evaluates javascript will trigger the counter (ofc this can be circumvented by sending the cookie on purpose but why would anyone do that)
basically it works like this:
1. is visitor cookie set ? proceed : set it to value a
2. send api request to get visitors
3. set cookie to value b
the api request will only count your visit if the cookie is set to value a, which only happens once per session unless you clear your cookies
basically only a client that evaluates javascript will trigger the counter (ofc this can be circumvented by sending the cookie on purpose but why would anyone do that)
Replying to @laru@pleroma.laru.dsrv.x7q.eu
@laru In the end the IPs don't get collected on my site as they get deleted after 30 minutes, the only time they get stored is for my guestbook because I have a community in a more normie world so moderation is needed