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Hi barkers,

The migration to the new HostHatch FreeBSD server has gone well!
There is some local userland software missing that I will have to
reinstall as required, but the services are running a lot smoother.

The new Sharkey instance is also running, and it has been a lot more
performant than Akkoma. I have migrated the Akkoma instance away from
woofer.unix.dog to a private server, and it will be turned read-only
soon. Please gather your data backup if you haven't.

Finally, I need to update the jails and host systems on bark.unix.dog and
howl.unix.dog. Next weekend, January 4th 2025, at 16:00 PST (GMT-8)
there will be a downtime of the host systems for a few minutes, and then
intermittent downtime on the services for an hour or two while I update
the jails.

TL;DR Downtime 2025-01-05T00:00Z for an hour or two, for maintenance.

Happy woofing!
~ Citlali

Hi woofers,

First all, there is a new Sharkey instance at https://sk.unix.dog.

I'm sorry to announce that the Akkoma instance will become read-only
in 3 months. The database has become rotted and the server software
is not performant, and the user experience has dropped dramatically.

To replace it, I've set up a Sharkey instance, which is a Misskey fork.
It does not connect to LDAP, so you need to sign up for it separately.
Sharkey supports Mastodon API clients as well, which offsets the bulky web UI.
It's also made by sharks! :3

This instance is already running on the new server and should be more
performant due to Misskey's battle-tested database schema and heavy
Redis usage.

TL;DR: **Akkoma will be read-only in 3mo. Switch to Sharkey at
https://sk.unix.dog. You have to register separately on the instance!**

Message the UNIX.dog discussion XMPP room if you need help,
or reach out directly to me.

Happy barking,
~ Citlali

TL;DR: During the week of Nov. 25th, services will be potentially
unavailable as I migrate the VPS.

Hi woofers,

Thanks for sticking around this long. Some might have noticed a bit of a
lapse in the announcements, and that's partially because I've been
pretty busy. However, the technical debt of using Contabo and Gentoo has
reached a level where it is not possible for me to maintain it well
enough.

For that reason, I have decided to switch VPS providers and operating
systems. The infrastructure will be moving to Hosthatch, and along with
it will come a bit of a hardware upgrade. 

bark.unix.dog:
- - FreeBSD
- - 24GB RAM
- - 2 dedicated, 4 fair-share cores on an AMD EPYC 7513
- - 100GB NVMe storage

howl.unix.dog:
- - FreeBSD
- - 1 GB RAM
- - Single-core
- - 1TB HDD storage

Currently, they are linked with NFS to share storage. 

On the week of November 25th, I will take down services to migrate data
to the new hosts. In addition, the SSH and TLS keys for the apex domain
(unix.dog) will change to point to Bark.

New SSHFP:
256 SHA256:URg1rELMRMRn7MxHsB9B1q68tuLdJ/wJz5H8N9peppg root@bark (ECDSA)
256 SHA256:bTV83E32So4R6HCkJ4sNdfKiz45jFrKX0RJL+6v90is root@bark (ED25519)
3072 SHA256:rezIabGsw83a0iEsPvhHW7G3/+cJs/Es906zNFxF9rQ root@bark (RSA)

256 SHA256:7lUiUxiuM+dMiiSwOMEqThjSDTiRQsn4dPSc43zJ1Cg root@howl (ECDSA)
256 SHA256:2eTBJBJxtLpQbvwX1cPPpgU1UJSGhHlFOTxlw18iUqo root@howl (ED25519)
3072 SHA256:1eGhmmhnL04x1S8iCgRCkWfWhTXn7cRaP9IUxQSNmHk root@howl (RSA)

New TLS cert public key hash:
SHA256:a92c1bbd95cc4362342c6b604e943df8fb32d4fd96dde799abd3caee09a5444a

You can test out bark.unix.dog right now if you'd like to get a feel for
FreeBSD, but there isn't much on the server now.

~ Citlali

Hi woofers,

Tomorrow, at around 16:00 PDT, I'm going to be rebooting the server
quickly to apply kernel updates. Sorry for the short notice, but I can't
keep postponing it.

Again, that's Tomorrow, September 2nd, 16:00 PDT:
2024-09-02T16:00:00-0700

Keep barking!

~ Citlali

Hello barkers,
The server will be under maintenance next week on April 5th. I'm aiming
to start at 14:00 PST, and should be done not too long after that.
That's 2024-04-05T14:00-08:00.

Thank you!
~ Citlali (wruff)