It’s just gone! I had some good conversations going too :(

Sure I may have picked it partially because the name was cool and partially because I needed to correct someone who was wrong about solar panels while first checking out Lemmy, but they were cool people doing good work and I miss em. The best kind of nerds. Fingers crossed for an eventual return, otherwise RIP.

Actually looks like all of f-hub is down, anyone know what’s up? And/or if there’s a way to see my post history there?

e: here’s an update from poVoq, if anyone’s got a hot tip on how to see my posts there that’s great but both my concern and curiosity have been alleviated. Thanks :)

e x2: got help with finding my old posts too. All questions answered, you guys rock

  • Despair@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    They posted an update here.
    https://lemmy.world/post/53472780/26479377

    poVoq here. I am starting to think I am cursed, because everything works fine (or is at least fixable with a remote server restart) until the second I go on a longer business trip and can’t easily access the hardware.

    Remote access is mostly lost, but I was able to triangulate the issue and of course it is something I had on my list of potential issues, but as a low priority item 🫠 At least it isn’t the same problem again as in 2025.

    What exactly triggered the issue is unclear though. I was still able to access the reverse-proxy server yesterday (shortly before it went down) and tried to do some updates for that php security problem in a VM that runs on the same machine. I thought I had those covered, but there is a slight chance that it is related and someone chained another exploit to escape the VM.

    Anyways, it looks like the realistic / not overly optimistic scenario is that the server will stay down until christmas. I did have someone who could restart the servers on site until this summer, but they had to relocate to mainland Portugal for job reasons (tourism sector) and so they will also only return for christmas.

    So yeah, not great at all, and I will have to think more seriously about how compatible this kind of self-hosting is with my current job, which limits my access to the servers for a few weeks at least once a year. It was easier during the pandemic times when I started all this, as deployments were shorter and more seldom back then.

    • naught101@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 day ago

      Oh man… I used to do server admin more tyan a decade ago and that reminds me of horrible times trying to figure problems out. The internet is so damn fragile. I don’t envy anyone trying to do that these days…

  • southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic)@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    2 days ago

    No announcements I can find.

    But, sometimes instances will go down temporarily due to things happening faster than admins can give any warning. And, if they don’t have accounts elsewhere, they might not bother to make one just you announce afterwards.

    Normally, I’d say to check and see if your instance defederated from them, but that’s such a solid instance, it would be really weird for anyone to defed from them.

    Wouldn’t count them out. Just recently, literature.cafe went down for a couple of days. Sh.itjust.works has had to block app access while setting up protections from bots. Similar stuff happens. An update might break something, or what have you.