After a month and a half downtime all the users will have moved on to other instances. This is essentially a death sentence for the instance and its communities.
Idk, quite a few (me included) made alt accounts for the time being, and we’ll return when it becomes possible, especially if we really do migrate to piefed.
Lets see. I think a relaunch on Piefed might interest some people to come back, and most slrpnk communities are rather niche and will probably stay. /c/climate might move though.
I dont think it will be. I’ve had two accounts for a while to deal with unexpected issues & will happily return to my slrpnk account once it’s back up and running :)
Plus for the communities, people who were subscribed to them before will likely stay subscribed & once the instance is back up the posts will be in their feeds without an issue.
Being able to accommodate issues like this is one of the major upsides to a decentralized platform.
They didn’t need you anyway.
Why is this a jpg?
Just be happy that the jpg is not embedded in docx
Itself embedded in an auto extractable zip executable.
Archived once more in RAR, just for sure.
And then tar.bz2 on top so that no basic users of sidewalks can ever open it.
ikr
svg, lossless webp, or png are way better options for an image of text
Because fuck blind people, that’s why
It wouldn’t be meme-worthy were it lossless.
Is this loss dot jaypeg
Alt text:
Slrpnk.net is currently offline due to an unforseen hardware failure in combination with the main system-administrators having no physical access to the server location until mid July due to work or summer-holiday related travels.
We are very sorry for this unforseen down-time, but slrpnk.net will return for sure and we already have some plans for a nice relaunch, so stay tuned!
Assuming slrpnk stands for solar punk - that produces funny little theories in my mind about the server location.
Their servers are located in Portugal I believe and do indeed run on solar power! They gave details of their set up on their wiki page but… that was on the server that’s gone down so… have a read in July I guess?
it’s on archive.org
Server hosting This is a work in progress Slrpnk.net is hosted by F-hub.org, a volunteer driven and non-commercial effort to host federated community services in a resource efficient and ethical way. F-hub.org grew out of a community of open-source game developers (freegamedev.net) that has existed since the early 2000s. All the servers are operated and maintained (as a hobby) by one of the founding members and are currently located on the Azores in Portugal. Connectivity is provided through a dedicated high-speed fibreglass connection. Hardware The F-hub.org servers are based on second-hand consumer PC and data-centre hardware, but optimized for low energy consumption. Battery backup power is provided and data is stored with triple redundancy (off-site backups are still a work in progress). Electricity is currently provided by the utility grid (about 60% green-energy, mostly from a geothermal power-plant) but it is a work in progress to upgrade to a on-site solar PV system for near 100% renewable power. Slrpnk.net itself currently runs on a dedicated 6th gen Intel CPU server with 8 threads, 16GB RAM and SATA SSD storage in raid configuration. Image uploads are stored on a large HDD raid array. All data is snapshotted and transferred for backup to a second shared server on daily basis. External services Given how difficult it is to have outgoing email accepted by the large email providers, all emails are currently routed through an external SMTP server hosted by OVH in France (same as the domain registration and DNS routing). There are backup plans to move the servers to a co-location data-center owned by Altice, should this be required for scaling. However, monthly rent of rack-space is quite costly (starts at around 300€/month), thus this will require a substantial regular donation base to be possible.
Don’t pull a feddit.de on people, alright?
What exactly happened there? It was the big thing, then I didn’t use it for a month or so and then it was gone.
The admin basically ran it as a one man show with only one other admin who had very limited privileges. He then went on a “business trip” or workaction or longterm vacation - there were different stories. Anyway, the database went belly up, the other admin couldn’t do a thing and none could contact the admin. There are some rumours that he wasn’t who he claimed he was and actually was a Chinese national who simply returned home, but who knows that. As a matter of fact none had any meaningful contact with him for months then and it appears he did not return. (But is alive)
A Austrian NGO who amongst others does host some mastodon instances,etc. took over and now feddit.org is on a very productive, professional and transparent level.
Thanks for the summary! That sounds freaky!
Well, the trade-off between trusting a huge corporation or a single dude on the internet.
XKCD #2347
Ya gotta give a line from it or something, I don’t just see numbers and know what they are.
from context, it’s probably the “single dude in nebraska holding up the entire internet” one
e: holy shit I got the state right
I’ll be back when they get back up.
“unforseen hardware failure”
somebody didn’t check their backups!
The backups are most likely fine 😅
yes, that’s why it’s been down for this long…
Slrpnk.net is unexpectatly back online 🥳
