actually there is this one small thing i'd like to talk about.

Amber 🌸

actually there is this one small thing i'd like to talk about. for future reference, as someone else has already learned this the hard way... if you are going to migrate your instance to a new hosting provider, get to know them for a bit longer than just a week. especially if you are going to migrate a >300 user instance to their infrastructure.

Amber 🌸

otherwise, you might find out some very not cool information about them in a fedi callout post. you might then feel forced to migrate everything but because you left your other server provider for this new one and didn't bother to keep the old stuff for a month or two just to make sure the new provider is stable... yeah things might go a bit horribly wrong.

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@[email protected] my more radical take: you should not know your hoster on a personal level and they should absolutely not be a <5 people company either. you are trusting them with all of your shit, that's not something you should be doing with a company that can just fall off the face of the earth

Amber 🌸

@[email protected] i mean there's knowing your hoster on a personal level and just interacting with them, asking them about specs and sort of their company policy. maybe trying out a vm or two. It's hard really. I feel like backups mitigate the issue of "just fall off the face of the earth" as long as you have a contingency plan (let's say you have servers at home that you'll restore to). As for <5 people company... eh? I mean it really depends on your risk assessment there. We're hosted by Jade running Nulled LLC and there hasn't been any major problems. sure there was that one time two independent fiber backhauls were cut 40 miles from each other causing a datacenter outage but yeah. I also know more than just one person has access to the physical DC... But at the same time, before tf.s ever was on Jade's stuff I had been colocating a server for about half a year prior. So I wasn't really taking a big risk by throwing everything on a server provider I couldn't attest the reliability of