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WORLD IS A FUCK
Do Fucking Backups
410,757,864,530 DEAD INSTANCES
seriously do your backups. things get broken and deleted very easily. and store them on a different server. at home or on s3 or backblaze or even google drive. many good software: duplicity, borg, ... daily is reasonable but even monthly is better than none. and check them once in a while. if you operate something just have backups. it's important.
@CobaltVelvet also don't use scaleway, they've burned so many people I know of. this latest tragedy is just the final proof anybody needs.
@eq @CobaltVelvet yeah a.w.e was on scaleway. There were a couple other instances that used to use it back in the day, and i think they've killed more mastodon instances then almost any other single cause (second maybe to docker non-persistent volumes)
@nightpool @CobaltVelvet well damn
@eq @nightpool @wxcafe yes it was a.w.e, but i think it's not the only one recently
@wxcafe @eq @nightpool a.weirder.earth
@wxcafe @nightpool @CobaltVelvet a.weirder.earth
@nightpool i think i found the "correct" use of scaleway now: easily reproducible app servers. databases just don't belong there for now, it's cheap unstable ram and bandwidth
@nightpool @CobaltVelvet are you talking about a.w.e? is there another instance that died that i haven't heard of? D: