Is it worth having different accounts on different instances like as a backup?
I'm very happy where I am at the moment especially seeing the move/migration to #iceshrimp/#hajkey on blahaj.zone its a super cool idea :drgn_happy:
Just wondering if there been any times where an instances just dropped off without notice? It's actually my biggest fear with alot of things here on the fedi but I guess that's just the risk ones take here?
@Dragon I don't know of a specific time that has happened but it certainly can. I love this site but the uptime issues here make me a bit nervous and I am considering self-hosting as a failover.
@jessica@Dragon Yeah it's happened a couple of times. More usually it's a small server with a handful of users. There was recent near miss a couple of months back when previous #mastodonau owner announced rapid close (and it became clear that he had begun it with a commercial return in mind that didn't eventuate). It set off a flurry of migrations, until another server's admin took it on. I have multiple backups thanks to testing all the various fediverse platforms. My new Iceshrimp alt is hosted on ambrosia.moe, but there's more listed here https://iceshrimp.fediverse.observer/
@jessica honeslty same there def issues performance and uptime wise I have had here but as far as I can tell the admins are working on it and hopefully it be alright in the long run. Would really love to do a selfhost thing even if it just evens up being my backup
But if I do that I think I would use likely the same software here so kinda waiting on that to come around as well I still need to actually work out how to do it... But I digress I think things should be ok in the long run abit scary tho atm
@Dragon@jessica The uptime issues were us trying to balance cost vs performance on AWS, whilst our lead sys admin recovers from an accident. Now that she's relatively recovered, we're moving off of AWS on to a dedicated setup. We're not going anywhere, and the performance issues will be resolved once we get off of AWS
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