Sometimes I want to post things without having the context and platform of being an instance admin. I have a lot of very fond memories of this instance. Hell, talking with Crom was what inspired me to start my own.
I miss Crom; I think about him a lot these days. I hope they're doin' alright out there somewhere.
🏙 📣 ❕New Hosting Provider + Upgrade!
🔶 Since we decided we could no longer trust Scaleway to host our instance, we've moved to a new host-- @mastohost! They were kind enough to get us back online using our backups and existing cloud image storage.
🔷 And they're fast, too!! ^.^ And super nice!
🔶 While we were at it, we had to upgrade to Mastodon 2.4.0 to use their platform, so we went ahead and did that, too. ^^
🔷🔶 WELCOME BACK! 🎉
🏙 📣 ❕Downtime Explanation
🔶 Henlo soff frens! We had some downtime due to a hardware failure at Scaleway that their techs still haven't figured out how to fix.
🔷 D:<
🔶 Good news though! We were set up with nightly backups, so the instance is back online!
🔷 ^.^!
🔶 Unfortunately, that means we lost everything from 5pm PST May 30th up until the server went down at ~3:30pm May 31st.. so if you're missing something, that's likely why. Sorry, frens; we did our best!
🔷 This sucks!!!! ;o;
✨plush✨ city status (+++)
I've got the backup working! :tada:
Postgres is... weird. Really weird. I dropped and re-created the database and it somehow kept existing relations in place.
I'm spending time I don't have on this. >..>;;; Heck.
✨plush✨ city status
Scaleway has failed to bring the server back online. Their last contact with me was an apology some 12 hours ago with an escalation to "Engineering" and a promise to get back to me eventually.
I've asked them to delete the server and close my account.
If I can't get this backup working, I'm calling it over.
✨plush✨ city status
I'm beginning to suspect my database backup of ✨plush✨ city is useless.
Every restore I've managed thus far without errors during the restore has resulted in runtime errors like
ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid (PG::UndefinedTable: ERROR: relation "users" does not exist
I'm out of time to work on this today. ;~;
@mastohost Hi there!
Could you start an instance from a backup? Scaleway just ate my server.
Hey #MastoAdmin - what hosting providers do you recommend that aren't Scaleway?
My server's been "rebooting" for 5 hours now.
✨Plush✨ City is down due to what appears to be a hardware issue at Scaleway. I have attempted a hard reboot of the server without success. Scaleway support has not yet responded to my initial ticket reporting the outage.
We may be down for a while, friends. I might have to switch to a new hosting provider before this is resolved.
In the worst case scenario, I have a full server backup as of 5pm CST yesterday.
I am now also @mawr@plush.city!
I'm testing it out for the moment and it's running on my house server, so no open registrations... yet. >..>
I came up with a new word today: "Brandsplain"
As in: "Patreon made an update to their announcement trying to brandsplain their way out of the hole they dug themselves."
Crazy origami Ethernet port in Fuzjitsu laptop
https://twitter.com/decryption/status/938593066306322432
Roy Moore tweets that we’ve got to go back to the recognition of god, and to that end I’ve created this handy god recognition chart you can keep in your pocket!
https://awoo.space/media/OPyxkfhdapB4NwDEJPA
Dragony plush thing! Friendly, non-binary, anarcho-syndicalist, ace.
Check out @mawr for my public account.