Progress update

Sebastian Potter

26 Oct 2024 — 1 min read

The backup of the server and migration to Scaleway is essentially complete. 250GB of media files, and 100GB of database are up and running.

The database restore is currently rebuilding indexes, which will take some time, and until then there's nothing left to do but get some sleep.

I expect when I come back in the morning the database restore will be complete, and it will be time to test the service, hopefully opening things up again shortly thereafter.

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We're live again!

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New... merch?

Further improvements

Rebuilding Mastodon - back soon

We're live again!