After a few hours of downtime last night it looks like our server migration and update to the latest Lemmy v0.18.2 was successful.
If anyone is experiencing any issues or quirks please let us know here or at our Mastodon account if that’s easier.
For the curious, we moved from Digital Ocean to Hetzner, which will help us scale better in the future at a much cheaper cost. We also cleaned up some database inconsistencies that may have been introduced in a previous failed/buggy update. Cautiously optimistic that everything is stable!
Appreciate it! I’ve bookmarked this post so I can come back to it next time I’m thinking about switching.
Most of my sites see very little traffic, so I’m not worried about a lack of processing power, but I am worried about overpaying. When DO increased the price of their basic droplet a year or two ago, my reaction was that I’d already been paying for something I wasn’t getting full use out of.
Plus I occasionally see something that makes me think DO doesn’t have their act together. Like, the RSS feed for their status blog was broken for the better part of a year. They were still posting statuses, and they knew the feed was broken, it just took them that long to fix it.
On the other hand, their documentation and tutorials are great, which I definitely value. And, let’s be honest, I’m settled and comfortable and it would probably take something significant to motivate me to move.
A couple of my sites (including HouseDraft which I’ve linked here before) are hosted at NearlyFreeSpeech instead. It costs about $20/year for a mostly-static site, but the company seems to be run by grumpy, opinionated old sysadmins whom I hope I never have to ask for help. There’s a question in their FAQ that asks “Is your service easy to use?” and the answer is “No.”
Yes I agree with all of this, most of mine see very little traffic as well. I have personal Pixelfed/Mastodon instances that are basically me talking to myself and even at their lowest tiers I just can’t justify the price anymore sadly. $14/mo for just the Mastodon droplet and backups (Rails needs at least 2GB of RAM to compile assets!) just isn’t sustainable. Moving was a huge pain and I stayed with DO for the same reason you said (and I think that’s totally fine), but I finally broke recently when I could cut the price to 1/3 at Hetzner.
Big +1 on DO’s docs/guides too, I’ve used their guides on nginx, certbot, and many others quite a bit and they’re very well maintained.
I’ve variously come across NearlyFreeSpeech before and for tiny static sites that seems like a great deal. I actually may even prefer the grumpy sysadmins at this phase 😜