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Subjam aims to bring a fresh, new experience to music lovers and musicians around the world. Our hyper-focus on local communities puts the spotlight on what's happening in your town. Join us in our journey to revolutionize music discovery and culture.

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These servers (3 compute nodes on top, 4 storage nodes on bottom) comprise the current Subjam platform. These are servers that we bought, configured and racked ourselves in a data center we have physical access to.

We're proud of our DIY ethic and it motivates us to build Subjam strong.

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(P.S. If you believe in what we're doing, become part of our success by clicking "Funding" on the main menu)

This journal entry from 2008 marks the beginning of Subjam's story!

I wanted to create a place where local musicians and their fans would go online to hang out and listen to music together.

Features would include uploading your own tracks, listen to them live and realtime chat.

The spirit of this hand drawn note is stronger than ever today in our goal to support local music communities everywhere.

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I built the infra from the ground up on hardware I own, colocated at a secure datacenter I have physical access to.

These servers run a fleet of VMs (libvirt/qemu/kvm) that make up pretty much every service necessary for an Internet platform: DNS (bind), mail (postfix), web (apache), reverse proxy (haproxy), database (postgres, mariadb), storage (gluster) and a bunch of others.

It's very rewarding to be in near complete control of my services!

Subjam iOS beta v1.0b51 (February 27, 2025) brings the following improvements:

- Refactored media player
- UX + UI improvements (media player, feed UX, profile display)
- Stripped bitcode from 3 Ogg Opus related Cocoapods due to Xcode 16 removing support

Thanks for supporting Subjam, so we can support local and independent music scenes everywhere!

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Subjam: Supporting Your Local Music Scene · BetaGet Subjam (beta) for Apple Devices To get the beta, fill out the form below and we'll send you an email with instructions. Subscribe to our newsletter for updates on the upcoming Android release and more Beta Changelog: v1.0b51 (February 27, 2025): Lots of UI, navigation and broadcast related improvements: Refactored media player so it [...]

Since I quit my job last month and am focusing 100% on , I'm able to implement solutions to my infrastructure I simply didn't have time to implement before.

Right now I'm tackling live virtual machine backups to shared storage. I'm using 'virtnbdbackup' and so far it seems like a very straight forward and powerful tool in my toolbelt.

libvirtbackup.grinser.de/

virtnbdbackupvirtnbdbackupBackup utility for Libvirt / qemu / kvm supporting incremental and differential backups + instant recovery (agentless).
#sysadmin#backup#vm

With the thousands of stories from musicians, artists and bands I've heard in the past few years while researching for Subjam, there's one overwhelmingly recurring theme:

Artists need money to survive, but making anything that even remotely resembles a sustainable income in the music business is next to impossible.