Host ARCHUB locally

[Freddo3000]

Seems doable, and should save on hosting costs.

[WirelessPillow]

Server does not have the storage space at this time, looking at options to expand to cut costs. Will advise when feasible to have the Hub on the server

[Freddo3000]

Server does not have the storage space at this time, looking at options to expand to cut costs. Will advise when feasible to have the Hub on the server

One year after the ticket was opened, forgot I even put one up. Anyhow I find it doubtful that ARCHUB takes such a huge amount of storage space. I'd expect it to take at most 1-3GB with the entire database and mission files, though correct me if I'm wrong.

[TomBurch]

Current disk space is 3.4GB, which probably contains a lot of things that could be removed. Mission files are stored on google cloud rather than locally.

The first step towards hosting locally should be to remove our dependency on Laravel Forge, which would include being able to setup and manage things like SSL, nginx, and deployments ourselves - potentially by using Docker.

[Freddo3000]

Certainly seems possible. SSL would just need Let's Encrypt set up, deployment can probably be handled via Github Actions using Docker or similar. Is using specifically nginx necessary? Currently the server is running Windows IIS to host the modpack, though swapping over to nginx shouldn't be a problem.

[TomBurch]

We shouldn't start by considering moving the server to using Windows - that would complicate and require re-evaluating both our use of PHP and MySQL.
You can use Docker compose to set up containers with LetsEncrypt (certbot) and nginx

It would probably be best to set up a proper CI/CD pipeline with Github for testing + deployment

[Freddo3000]

Setting up a CI/CD pipeline would probably tie into it well.

[TomBurch]

To put it in perspective we spend $12 a month on forge and probably $6-12 on the actual server depending on which type we use, so cutting out forge would save a significant amount.