Femboy Group
Femboy Group(FG) is a group made out of 3 members. The purpose of the group is learning about technology together and execute ideas. FG services usually follow a very consistent naming scheme since none of us are good at finding names. Our primary passion is computers and servers. We learn together what's possible with the current technology and gain experience by maintaining some services. Apart from that we play TF2 and watch stuff together. None of FG's sites have ads since we don't do this for money in return.
History
Femboy Group initially started after 3 members met in a Turkish anime server circa January of 2023. Member No. 1 first opened a test website called FemBooru with the domain booru.ga and later renamed it to fem.booru.ga. With this, the idea of FG was born. After that, due to Facebook's lawsuit against Freenom, the booru.ga domain has closed. After that, Member No. 1 acquired the femboy.group domain and we started running new services.
Projects/Services
FemBooru
A small Szurubooru instance for internal image storage. It is currently closed for general access.
FemTube
A PeerTube instance for video sharing. Has some testing videos and memes. Isn't used much since video production is not our primary skill set.
FemBlog
A WordPress instance for basic blogging. Has some tutorials and news. It was used for service updates and stuff before FemSocial was a thing. Now, it's only for long texts.
FemCraft
Simple Minecraft server. This isn't used by any of the FG members. A very close friend of Member No. 1 needed a Minecraft server and we had the resources to make one. Closed for public access.
Femboy Meeting Room
A private Matrix room for group members. Also has other sub groups where friends are allowed. Main group is only for the members.
Fembo
Self managed Habbo retro. Open for public registration with infinite money. Basically a sandbox. It's sitting there until we find a better use for it.
Trivia
Fembo was single handedly the hardest service to install in FG's history. It took us weeks of research and days of trial and error since the guides were all for Windows and none of us had prior experience with Habbo.
FemSocial
GoToSocial instance for private use. Open for views but registration is closed. @system account is for FG related updates and news.
Why not Mastodon?
For our use case, Mastodon is unnecessary. All we need are simple posts and replies. GoToSocial provides that in a very small footprint.
FemWiki
Experimental MediaWiki for simple explanations and learning. Open for views but registration is closed.
Others
FG has many other small projects like automated bots, scrapers and such. We have other stuff like a VN controller with USB driving sets. I didn't bother listing them all since they're just small hobby projects.
Servers
FG has many servers at our disposal. These servers are separate aka. member 1 can't access member 2's server but we occasionally give each other access for testing and installation purposes. Home servers are mostly used for private stuff and testing.
Member 1
- Oracle Free Tier
- 4 CPU 24 RAM
- 2 CPU 1 RAM
- 2 CPU 1 RAM
- Raspberry Pi 2B
- Raspberry Pi 5
- Old laptop
- More old laptops, currently unused
- Old slim PC
- QNAP TS431 with 3*4 TB disks
- Simple gigabit switch
This setup will change in near future with more powerful tools.
Member 2
- Oracle Free Tier
- 4 CPU 24 RAM
- 2 CPU 1 RAM
- 2 CPU 1 RAM
- Raspberry Pi 4
Member 3
- Currently trying to get Oracle Free Tier
Relation with Kurt Ticaret
Kurt Ticaret is a sister project started by Member No. 2. FG and Kurt Ticaret go hand in hand in everything. There is no rivalry between us. Kurt Ticaret means "Wolf Trading" in English and it's a joke about wolves being Turkish people's national animal and a reference to the popular MMORPG game Metin2.
Amınake
Amınake is a joke website by Kurt Ticaret about a streamer Unlost yelling "Amınake" after getting a double kill in CS:GO. "Amınake" has no real meaning in Turkish and it's just a different way of saying "amına koyayım" which somewhat translates to "fuck you". In most cases this isn't used as an actual insult.
How it started
Amınake started as just a very small website hosted on a free provider(not Oracle). No one expected it to have more than 10 users optimistically. After a group of friends tried entering it at the same time, the free provider's speed couldn't catch up. With the help of FG, we moved the site to Oracle which has 10 TB bandwidth and 4 gigabit internet. This is important for later on.
Popularity
We don't know how but this "meme" exploded in Turkish social media. Before we even knew it, some very famous streamers used this website on stream, which their thousands of followers did the same. Eventually, even Unlost himself used the website.
Technical Problems
That much attention was hard on the bandwidth. 4 gigabit easily handled all the traffic but we had no idea about the bandwidth. None of us worked with a site with that much traffic before so we couldn't even imagine the amount of traffic it did. I installed vnstat on our server to measure the traffic. To my surprise, the site used around 5-6 TB of bandwidth per month. This is excluding the times huge streamers promoted it on stream. I expect around 1 TB extra traffic there. With this shocking discovery, we had to do something quick. 6 TB of bandwidth is around 2000 TRY which is not an amount we can pay, especially not for a meme site. Of course we didn't need to pay this, Oracle gives us 10 TB bandwidth per month for free. But with the alarming rate site's popularity is rising, it wouldn't be so long until we pass the 10 TB line. So, with the help of FG, Amınake was moved to Cloudflare where they offer unlimited bandwidth. Since that day, we didn't have any problems. More data is available at our FemSocial posts.
Ending
Amınake's domain will expire at 07/05/2025. We have no plans on renewing it as it'll probably die out until that date. If not, we'll either just abandon it or move to a different cheaper domain. Until that, we have no plans on shutting it down.