Join Sharkey dot Org has been OFFLINE for over 2 months. The reason given was hosting issues, and this was before the whole Hetzner drama. Join Sharkey dot Org is supposed to be the gateway for people to learn about Sharkey and how they can join.
The Documentation Page (Wiki) is still up, using the subdomain, Doc dot Join Sharkey dot Org, but the URLs are broken. I have repeatedly reported the broken URLs for over 2 months (both in the Git and on their Discord Server). No one seems to want to address that.
They have a private copy of GitLab located at ActivityPub dot Software, that you cannot find via a search looking for Sharkey (DuckDuckGo, Bing, Google). That is where you can report code changes and fixes, but you would likely not know that unless you stumbled upon the URL somewhere (or someone gave you that URL).
Sharkey raised a lot of money so they can host their own content, safely, and securely. They now own their own physical server and lease the space to have that server housed (hosted) remotely. And while the lead developer promotes that server partially as a minecraft server, Join Sharkey dot Org still remains, OFFLINE.
I have pulled funding from Sharkey and will not be supporting it further until they get their act together. It is a good software, and it is my preferred method to use the Fediverse, but you would assume they would want their website working.
Today I learned: #nix-infect, to transform a vm from another distribution into #NixOS, mostly for cloud providers that don't offer this option! (Including #DigitalOcean and #hetzner). I am going to use it! :)
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♲ @bkoehn@diaspora.koehn.com:> > If you have a website hosted on #Hetzner, take it off from their servers immediately. This morning I woke up with my instance down and this message in my mailbox:
"Dear Ms...We have noticed irregularities on your account, so we unfortunately cannot have a contract with you at the present time. We have therefore had to close your account.
In general, if customers give us incomplete or incorrect information, we have to close their accounts.
We cannot provide any information on individual cases. Thank you for your understanding.
Kind regards"
Without giving any warning or reason, they deleted my account with everything inside (Thankfully we have back ups every 12 hours). >
I couldn't even log into their site to open a ticket. They deleted my entire instance.
I replied the email asking about what information was incomplete or incorrect. Their answer was "we can't provide you this information due to security reasons"
It was a Kafkanian situation. They didn't ask me for more information or indicate what was wrong. They didn't even warn me that something was wrong. They didn't give me at least 10 minutes to look for a new server. They deleted my account and any possibility of having access to their website in an unilateral decision. And I learned that, interestingly, this has already happened to another progressive instance. Another curiosity is that they host the website of AfD, the far-right-almost-nazi German party.
In other words: a progressive and feminist instance is overthrown without explanation. An LGBTIQA+ instance is also taken down with no justification. But a far-right website is comfortably hosted in there, for years now, because they are the good guys according to Hetzner.
Pessoal, a Ursal está offline por conta da Hetzner, que avacalhou com a @Ursalzona e decidiu encerrar a conta sem mais nem menos, incluindo sem explicação.
Felizmente eu tinha configurado backups agendados e temos 10 deles, sendo o último feito à meia-noite de hoje.
Já estamos trabalhando para colocar a Ursal de volta no ar e depois vamos atrás da Hetzner.
Right, I’m back to focussing on Domain* now that another round of dev is complete on Kitten** and, two years after I originally asked the question: does anyone know of a comparable service to Hetzner Cloud (API, affordable, very quick server setup, VPS) that supports CoreOS?
I still can’t find any. And my attempts to get Hetzner to support it have failed (mostly due to lack of interest on Fedora’s side) 🤷♂️
Looks like Vultr has it but it’s too expensive. We’d have to charge at least €25/mo instead of ~€10/mo for a Small Web site with Hetzner to make the same ~€5/mo to try and make Small Technology Foundation sustainable.
And I really want Small Web sites to be affordable so folks can experiment and play with them.
What a weekend! And yet, our machines handled the #hackernews load like champs! 💪
Here are some stats for the techy geeks:
We run feedle as a cluster of load-balanced container instances across several physical servers rented on #Hetzner. We've generously given each instance enough CPU, and yet, despite the HN rush, it barely registered. That's all thanks to the clever choice of backend technology, and using async wherever possible.
Ugh, so in one of the replies to my experiments with #BorgBackup and associated tooling, @guerda asked "well, why not #restic?" and turns out, my main reasons against using restic (no compression and no exclude exceptions) are no longer valid, so I'm currently re-evaluating it.
Almost finished my writeup. And you know what? Both are really good.
My decision might boil down to performance against remote hosts and SSH vs SFTP, and whether "rclone serve restic" can save the day there.
A@H uses distributed computing to calculate the sizes and rotations of well, asteroids.
Looks like renting a #Hetzner bare metal server from their server auction is the best cost/performance solution to do stuff in #BOINC in the cloud. I'm right now renting a 16C/32T AMD 5950X server, and it's much, much cheaper than renting 32 cores from for example AWS.
As the #SmallWeb comes closer to being a thing with the launch of Domain this year, I’d really love for it to run on maintenance-free auto-updating instances instead of Ubuntu. But it looks like I’m forced to go with it as I can’t otherwise find affordable VPS hosting that can create an instance as quickly as Hetzner can.