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[Meta] Server migration and update to 0.18.2 seems to be a success 🤞 (mtgzone.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After a few hours of downtime last night it looks like our server migration and update to the latest Lemmy v0.18.2 was successful.

If anyone is experiencing any issues or quirks please let us know here or at our Mastodon account if that's easier.

For the curious, we moved from Digital Ocean to Hetzner, which will help us scale better in the future at a much cheaper cost. We also cleaned up some database inconsistencies that may have been introduced in a previous failed/buggy update. Cautiously optimistic that everything is stable!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes I agree with all of this, most of mine see very little traffic as well. I have personal Pixelfed/Mastodon instances that are basically me talking to myself and even at their lowest tiers I just can't justify the price anymore sadly. $14/mo for just the Mastodon droplet and backups (Rails needs at least 2GB of RAM to compile assets!) just isn't sustainable. Moving was a huge pain and I stayed with DO for the same reason you said (and I think that's totally fine), but I finally broke recently when I could cut the price to 1/3 at Hetzner.

Big +1 on DO's docs/guides too, I've used their guides on nginx, certbot, and many others quite a bit and they're very well maintained.

I've variously come across NearlyFreeSpeech before and for tiny static sites that seems like a great deal. I actually may even prefer the grumpy sysadmins at this phase 😜