The path to liberty from the cloud. Here's where we'll be posting updates on how the migration to a real physical server is going.
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The path to liberty from the cloud. Here's where we'll be posting updates on how the migration to a real physical server is going.
The Path to Liberty from the Cloud
As many know, we've embarked on a journey to liberate ourselves from (most) cloud services. As many service providers have found, the "cloud" is pretty inexpensive as you start but grows exponentially as the service grows, often to the point that keeping the service in the cloud doesn't make sense.
Mastodon Canada News (news.mstdn.ca)
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news.mstdn.ca and LibreTranslate (the translate service) have been transitioned to the new server.
Next up is ElasticSearch which should move over the weekend.
Presently we're doing a dry run move of the PostgresSQL database (the main database) to see how long it will take. So far, we're three hours into it and still have two hours remaining. When we make this move we will take a hard downtime to make sure we don't lose anything. This dry run helps to know approx how long it'll take.
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That said, if you need translation services or are a smaller instance and want to integrate translation services, we have our instance available at https://lt.mstdn.ca
We would ask that only Canadian users use this service. If you are integrating the service, please DM me just so I know that you're using it so I can advise you of any future upgrades/outages.