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Hey hello you, it's been a while since I announced something, right? It must be something like close to a year. Do I have something to announce? Yeaaah absolutely, about the future of udongein.xyz

Not gonna maintain the secret for too long: udongein.xyz will never see 2025.

"Why?" you may ask, and this is a legitimate question, and it will be answered. As some of you might have noticed I have gone missed in action for almost all 2024, for a simple reason: I don't vibe with my account/followers/followees/federation any more. The few times I connected and looked at what I missed, it just felt like an unpleasant chore.

In addition to this unsynced vibe, a few other elements add up:

Pleroma requires some maintenance, especially when it breaks (pg_repack is your best friend is you have timeout queries), not that much, but still some work (I assume that Akkoma is the same)
Even if local users bunnies doesn't make (that much?) trouble, it is still a responsibility
The machine hosting the instance is awfully hard to migrate, and consumes quite some energy

It is not something I constantly think about, but more like a background noise in my head that reminds me how broken the situation is, dragging my mood down.

Yes the instance runs quite smoothly, but people doesn't know it is a 8CPU, 16GB RAM host, and the pinnacle is the database, PostgreSQL takes a bit more than 174GB of disk space (this is mostly indexes). This ridiculous space makes it virtually impossible to move, not without lost data (pruning old objects) and/or an insane downtime (estimated about a week of computing to rebuild all indexes). Yes, I tried several approaches, but none was successful or satisfying.

So, what's the plan? As I have already said, this instance won't see 2025. Also the gitea will be gone at the same time. The simple reason is, I won't own the hardware any more, so I can't host anything on it once the transaction made. The server is something I bought with a friend (50-50) for a project and represents a valuable amount of money that I kinda need as I am broke side of finances. Friend wants to buy the other 50%, I need money.

Now, what's the future, is udongein.xyz gone forever? Maybe, maybe not. The domain is valid until december 2025. Three options come to my mind:

I let the domain expire, and whomever squat/buy it
I transfer the domain to someone I trust to not host an online casino website
A new instance is made on another subdomain

I am not a fan of the first solution, and I'm not sure if I can endorse the responsibility of hosting a semi-public service. So, the second solution is the most likely.

Now, what you should do is doing an export of your following list, migrate to another instance and observe. I will do an announcement when the date is known.

Loving all the udongein.xyz users, the current and past users. And remember: Praise NaiJi!

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announcement on a more stable location: https://www.udongein.xyz

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