5 years of Do Not Stare!
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5 years of Do Not Stare!
Hey ho! As of today (2024-11-13), our little instance has been running for 5 years!!
We started donotsta.re together with @lnl after my previous instance (niu.moe, may it rest in peace) announced that it will be shutting down. We originally envisioned it as a comfy place for us two. Starting on a 4PLN/mo (~1EUR) arubacloud VPS, we later moved it onto sakamoto, my home server, where it went through a couple hardware upgrades. At one point we almost lost the database in a hardware crash. Clearly learning from our mistakes, we almost lost the database again a couple months later. Both times, the rescue missions included manually reading the data structures, and once I literally whipped out a hex editor to fixup a file.
Creatures came and went, friendships were made, wars were fought (ccn please federate with us again, xoxo donotsta.re). All in all, I’m really happy to have created a place for such a wonderful and diverse community. I wish for another n+1 years for the instance, and more peaceful ones at that.
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@domi when is it our turn to almost lose the database twice?
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@dns um.. don’t worry about it kitten
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Sammy (fursona arc) :nonbinaryFlag:replied to Domi_UwU.tg_ last edited by
