I’ll be hosting a #CoSocialTechOps Working Group meeting on Tuesday, January 20 at 9pm EST.

We’ll discuss the remaining small items that need to be tackled to rid our operations of US companies, and future plans.

This is open to anyone who wants to learn about our ops or has an interest in helping out!

Sign up here: https://luma.com/arjbo97a

Config file said: “Generated with mastodon:setup on 2022-12-11 06:31:40 UTC” 🥲

Onward!

#CoSocialTechOps #MastoAdmin

Deleting S3 buckets is a great way to ring in the new year.

Not taking this stuff with us into 2026.

#CoSocialTechOps

R.I.P. CoSocial Digital Ocean DB Cluster
(Aug 27, 2023 - Dec 22, 2025)

You were very reliable, quite fast, and far too expensive.

#CoSocialTechOps

Friday night. Time to sysadmin.

So now that we're on Fedihost and the database on Digital Ocean is no longer of any use, it is just an expensive collection of bits, and we should do away with it.

There is something deep in me that *hates* deleting data of any sort, even when I have duplicate and triplicate backups.

I tell myself this paranoia is useful, but I might just have a problem. 😂

#CoSocialTechOps

⚠️ Attention #CoSocialCa members ⚠️

There will be extended downtime today while the server is migrated to Fedihost.

Expect that the server will be offline between 12PM and 5PM EST.

More details will be provided in the Member Forums.

Thank-you for your patience!

- M

#CoSocialTechOps #ElbowsUpTech

Hey #CoSocialCa -

I'll host a TechOps gathering tomorrow evening.

Anyone who can make it is welcome to attend to discuss:

- Our #ElbowsUp plans to move to Canadian (or not-US) hosting
- Mastodon 4.5 upgrade planning
- Future plans
- Etc.

Details here: https://luma.com/idn9g2b9

#CoSocialTechOps #MastoAdmin

Whoooboy that gets the blood flowing.

Digital Ocean DB just completely crapped out while I was taking a backup, and for a moment appeared to be quite badly screwed up before (thankfully) fixing itself.

#MastoAdmin #CoSocialTechOps

As we prepare for the #CoSocialCa AGM, the #CoSocialTechOps working group is meeting tomorrow evening (8:30-9:00 EST) to discuss our strategy for the coming year.

We’ll review the current state of our operations and our #ElbowsUp initiative - making plans to move our stack from Digital Ocean and AWS to non-US service providers.

New members welcome!

If you’re a #Canadian technologist with an interest in learning about or helping to run #Fediverse services please RSVP: https://luma.com/je2m3phf

Migration from 4.3.7 -> 4.4.5 underway.

DB backup taking a bit. The “statuses" table is chonky.

#CoSocialTechOps #MastoAdmin