Seems like shittykopper was right, and the server was basically seen as dead for a time. We are slowly but surely comin back baby!!! I'll make the "what are you reading" post on Wednesday to give everything some time to simmer and all the other lemmy instance senpais to notice us.

Also, welcome Arthur to the admin team! Please thank them for getting this shit back online and helping fix this mess LMAO

We have switched our server provider to hetzner, with a specifically dedicated server now! For now, emails are disabled with them. Gonna try to enable them soon, by messaging hetzner when I can. For now, if you need to reset your password just message an admin.

Server cost for this month: $11.99/mo
Object storage with wasabi: $6.20 (last months cost) and right now it is $2.

Gonna put this info here for our continued improvement

To-do:

• Bring other lemmy web front ends online (alexandrite, photon, etc) back online. (likely on a different VPS than the main one.)
• Automate offsite backups with backblaze.
• Enabling cloudflare hash scanning (have an interview with NCMEC soon!)
• Restoring the /legal page with a legit privacy policy.
• Creating an uptimekuma page for status.literature.cafe again.
• Streamlining server monitoring using grafana/prometheus to keep track of things and automate things more so I don't have to physically ssh into the server (especially if I'm away from my desktop)
• Making sure we are properly in line with DMCA safe harbor rules in the US.