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I was not expecting to be out of work for this long. So it should be no surprise hosting starnix is affected. However I am not announcing that I am shutting it down, at least not yet.

I have secured a colocation site as of September last year, I have been testing its viability for the past few months. It currently is hosting https://videos.danksquad.org . Normally I've tried to keep Danksquad and Starnix infrastructure separate but I'm out of options the little money I was making is even less now and my insurance premiums went up.

You might ask, why I'm even making this post when I should just shutdown. it's because I'm stubborn and I want to outlive my enemies, I like shouting into the void and sometimes getting a shout back. I like posting my photography, aidorus, and gymrat spam even when nobody cares about what I'm doing. I don't like relying on others for support (even for donations) it's always ended poorly for me. Also all this sysadmin stuff involved with fediverse and self hosting helps me practice skills and solve problems that I would normally not be able to learn elsewhere, which by itself I find value in.

So my intention is to move Starnix to colocation. It's not good colocation but I don't have a choice. The only reason I would shut everything down is that the update and migration process is too difficult to perform or I exhaust my hardware capacity (unlikely).

So the migration process will go as follows.

mstdn.starnix.network uses a custom fork called v4.4.0-alpha.1+chuckya which is a glitch-soc fork, it also has some custom UI that I have modified and installed. All of this needs to be updated to the latest and then I can make a target VM to transfer the database to.

I have tried (lazily) to update in the past from my phone (📱) but it failed for some reason. I will put more effort into looking through all dependencies and making sure everything is correct for updating. But if it really does look like it is impossible to migrate only then I will announce I can no longer run the instance. The same thing goes for Pleroma but I expect that one to be easier to migrate.

It would be pretty funny to pick a new domain name if I do close the instance to fuck with all the people/instances that block/slander us for dumb reasons, but I'll only do that if I close and after I get my bag (💰).