It's the 1st of May, but we still work to make sure meow runs, and y'all can have a good time here!
If you feel like tossing a coin our way, we have a few places available!
Paypal
https://paypal.me/meowsocial
Liberapay
https://liberapay.com/meow.social/
Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/Nomaxice
As always, any donation is highly appreciated, big or small, but of course, is not necessary, we appreciate y'all being here on this adventure on the fediverse, since… April 2017, 3 years already since last month… Thank you!
After close to 2 years of meowing on the fediverse, we decided to open donations for meow!
Currently they will be used to pay @Nomaxice for his full time moderation work on meow.
Depending on how things evolve from there, we may dedicate some of the funds to pay for the hosting fees (currently handled by @Tiwy57 )
You can do a one time donation at https://paypal.me/meowsocial
Or chose to do a recurring donation on https://liberapay.com/meow.social/
Any donation, no matter how small, is appreciated!
As part of a system migration that hosts meow's mail server, it is possible that within the next 24/48 hours you may not receive our emails, and vice versa.
New server = New IP, so we will have the consequences of this change (can be classified as SPAM, or that you don't receive anything).
Anyway, don't panic, it takes time for everything to get back in order. Don't hesitate to contact us (... not by email, lol) if you have any questions.
So with the whole mess going on, I'll make a post too to let creatures know https://meow.social will happily welcome folks looking to migrate, among the many great choices available out there!
The second SSD reappeared on its own, I did nothing. Magic.
RAID synchronization is in progress
I'm creating a full snapshot backup of meow.social.
I think we'll be moving again in a little while. That server looks like just a piece of shit.
Meow was migrated to its new architecture successfully, and we apologize for any cuts you may have experienced over the past few days.
Both SSDs are working, as we had a small hardware problem during the migration, but we were able to continue in degraded mode. Everything works now!
Meow is now faster, and can now accommodate many more creatures!
Within an hour we will shut down meow.social in preparation for an intervention to change the SSD (which was delivered to us faulty)
We will carry out the backups at the same time, so that in the event of a complete breakdown we can restore the server
The shutdown of the server should take place around 20:00 UTC+2 / 14:00 Eastern
And should restart within an hour.
We are doing everything we can to ensure that this maintenance goes as smoothly as possible
Thank you for your understanding
An intervention from our host provider was planned tomorrow at 20:00 UTC+2 / 14:00 Eastern to replace the DOA SSD.
As such, meow will be shut down at around 15:00-16:00 UTC+2 / 09:00-10:00 Easter to back up the system beforehand, awaiting the intervention.
We apologize for the inconvenience and hope the intervention will be quick se we can be back online as soon as possible at full capacity.
Thank you for your understanding.
New additions from @IceWolf !
Also updated :
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