social.nihil.ws is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
I remembered @stefano@bsd.cafe wrote a really nice short article on how he did with nginx:
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/01/29/improving-snac-performance-with-nginx-proxy-cache/
Definitely an improvement! Even more convenient to set up with Guix deploy.
Predictably the resource utilization is dramatically different than Mastodon.
I come out to see that the marvelous @lisamelton@mastodon.social gave it a boost! Thank you Lisa!
Then I went to check on my VPS and it is showing:
load average: 0.07, 0.05, 0.05
New #snac instance survived a Lisa boost. Yay! (Lisa Melton Boost Certified)
I also took the chance to update #snac and, again, no surprises. Great piece of software.