#XOXOZone is now running on its new server. Total downtime: 2 hours.

Old: Digital Ocean SFO2, 8 "vCPU", 16 GB RAM, 80 GB disk. $96/mo + DO backups.

New: Hetzner HEL1, Ryzen 5 3600 6 core/12 thread, 64 GB RAM, 2TB RAID-1. $50/mo.

#XOXOZone has been updated to Mastodon v4.1.2 https://xoxo.zone/docs/

This maps to the #fediverse : make your festival, make your own rules, share with other festivals. #xoxo #xoxoZone

> So rather than saying that we are all conspiracy theorizers now, I should say that we are all, from someone’s perspective, cult members now.

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/dots-will-be-connected?ref=galaxy-brain

#XOXOZone has been upgraded to Mastodon v4.1.0 https://xoxo.zone/docs/

Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.1.0

Offline backup time. #XOXOZone

Interesting side effect of bumping memory from 8GB to 16GB on #XOXOZone: disk reads (green line) are WAY less spiky. Possibly more things are kept in cache, possibly less services are crashing out requiring reboot.

#XOXOZone has been upgraded to Mastodon v4.0.2 https://xoxo.zone/docs/

#XOXOZone has been updated to Mastodon v3.5.5. This is a small bugfix release. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.5.5

https://xoxo.zone/docs/

#XOXOZone has been updated to Mastodon v3.5.4! This is a security and bugfix release. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.5.4

We will upgrade to Mastodon v4.0 some time this week.

https://xoxo.zone/docs/

#XOXOZone has been upgraded from 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM to 4 vCPU, 8GB RAM. Hopefully this will alleviate recent HTTP 500 errors stemming from maxing out server memory. Please report any issues here or in Slack! https://xoxo.zone/docs/

#XOXOZone going down briefly for maintenance! But you probably won't see this message until after it comes back up. 🤔

Folks on #XOXOZone: how do you feel about Crossposts from Twitter on this instance, e.g. from Moa? Are you happily crossposting from Twitter, and do you regularly check for replies here? Whether or not you personally use a crossposter, do you think the Local feed has the right amount of crossposted tweets?

#XOXOZone has been updated to Mastodon v3.5.3 https://xoxo.zone/docs/

#XOXOZone has been updated to Mastodon v3.5.2 https://abackstrom.gitlab.io/xoxo.zone/

👋 hello, faces new and old! looks like its time for a new #introduction: i'm David (he/they), one of your friendly #XOXOZone admins 😄

🧑‍💻 i'm a staff software engineer, mostly working with Ruby/Rails
🍱 i'm a big foodie and tend to post about it a lot
☕️ i'm an amateur home barista
🎹 i'm a hobbyist musician, mostly just to relax these days (i used to play in a couple singer/songwriter/folk groups 🎺)
🎮 i like playing story-driven games
📚 i like reading fiction

nice to meet you all!

#XOXOZone is now on Mastodon v3.5.1 https://abackstrom.gitlab.io/xoxo.zone/

#XOXOZone has been upgraded to Mastodon v3.5.0 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.5.0 https://abackstrom.gitlab.io/xoxo.zone/

#XOXOZone has been updated to Mastodon v3.4.6

#XOXOZone server costs have been climbing and I haven't really been paying attention to why. I'm just now seeing that `tootctl preview_cards remove` is a recommended scheduled job, and it's running now to clean up half a million old preview images from object storage. :blob_dizzy_face:

#XOXOZone has been updated to Mastodon v3.4.5. https://abackstrom.gitlab.io/xoxo.zone/