Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share.
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Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.
I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.
Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!
EDIT - Blog post with details: https://blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2026/01/05/med-mastodon-the-future/
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Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.
I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.
Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!
EDIT - Blog post with details: https://blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2026/01/05/med-mastodon-the-future/
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@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk glad to hear that it's back up!
What's the long term plan, I'm assuming you don't want to continue paying the monthly cost? Or do you?
@julian So the plan will be to migrate everything onto the same servers we use for MastodonAppUK and Universeodon (Keeping it as it's own separate instance). as we made a fairly large investment back in September of last year into our own owned hardware with plenty of headroom for Growth.
There are some complexities around making this happen that come with taking on a new instance and taking on one that uses managed hosting right now but my intention is any changes that are made will be behind the scenes to reduce the hosting costs and align with how my existing instances run rather than anything that the community is going to notice or be impacted by.
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@julian So the plan will be to migrate everything onto the same servers we use for MastodonAppUK and Universeodon (Keeping it as it's own separate instance). as we made a fairly large investment back in September of last year into our own owned hardware with plenty of headroom for Growth.
There are some complexities around making this happen that come with taking on a new instance and taking on one that uses managed hosting right now but my intention is any changes that are made will be behind the scenes to reduce the hosting costs and align with how my existing instances run rather than anything that the community is going to notice or be impacted by.
@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk right on
Minimal disruption for existing users, love it!
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Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.
I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.
Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!
EDIT - Blog post with details: https://blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2026/01/05/med-mastodon-the-future/
For those that would like some more info, I've gone ahead and written up a blog post with a few bits that might be useful for the #MedMastodon community to know including a bit about who has taken over the site and what the future holds (TLDR it's not a lot that is interesting, just keeping the site stable and working nicely!) you can find the blog here - https://blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2026/01/05/med-mastodon-the-future/
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Okay #MedMastodon folks - The instance is now back up and running I'm pleased to share. Things might take a moment to catch-up and I have sent out an announcement so hopefully anyone that had accounts that doesn't see this will get the e-mail ping letting them know everything is currently back online.
I will post a bit more about the plan in the near future but the long story short is nothing is planned to change that folks will see, the main goal for me is to get the site up and running, catch up on the activities that look to be outstanding and get a plan together for migrating everything onto new infrastructure.
Also a huge shoutout to @mastohost who have been excellent at keeping the server "Paused" effectively without deleting data even when there was no confirmed migration path and a real big thanks to Nick for being willing to transfer the server and keep the community running!
EDIT - Blog post with details: https://blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2026/01/05/med-mastodon-the-future/
@wild1145 @mastohost Nice blog post. To some extent Ryan buried the lede, so I'll be a little bit louder: Ryan is looking for more moderators, so if you are interested in helping out that way, go read that part of the blog post and get in touch. He is also accepting financial support at https://ko-fi.com/mastodonappuk (again see the blog post for the relationship between med-mastodon and the existing instances).
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For those that would like some more info, I've gone ahead and written up a blog post with a few bits that might be useful for the #MedMastodon community to know including a bit about who has taken over the site and what the future holds (TLDR it's not a lot that is interesting, just keeping the site stable and working nicely!) you can find the blog here - https://blog.atlas-media.co.uk/2026/01/05/med-mastodon-the-future/
@wild1145 so you're an MSP that run mastodon instances for fun?
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@wild1145 so you're an MSP that run mastodon instances for fun?
@NoFlexZone I guess that's not a bad way to put it, in this case the Mastodon instance did come first before I started working for myself full time. The company itself is a bit of a weird one where it's both all the various side gigs / projects I've tinkered with over the years including Mastodon as well now as me working full time providing IT Consultancy services to other companies.
I don't think I've ever quite thought as what I've built as an "MSP" mostly because I tend to specialise in projects and designing / architecture of new things and that tends to be a lot of the work I do rather than maintaining systems or providing support for IT Systems but I might also just have an out of date view on what an MSP is now as I know they tend to do a lot more than just tier 1 support and keeping the lights on!
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