Just so I can finally clear the announcement off of #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon - We've been running without the Cloudflare Caching / proxy service since November 2025 now and other than the odd hiccup behind the scenes (Which CF wouldn't have helped with anyway) it's been really stable and from the folks that have provided feedback on the performance of the sites, both in the UK (Where we host the sites) and internationally the performance has been noticeably better.

We'll continue to monitor the global performance of the site, we continuously monitor latency and response times from various global endpoints and if it looks like we need to enable some sort of cache / CDN beyond what we now have in place we will re- visit it in the future. The change to remove CF proxying is going to remain permanent and now be "Normal" instead of the response to their global outage last year.

We're adding mastodon.cloud to our #Fediblock list due to the instance seemingly being abandoned with open signups and zero moderation. The burden of us suspending accounts locally is not practical when the instance is out of date and not being maintained.

It's been flagged since August last year - https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/115027342813989021 so I don't see it likely that anything is suddenly going to change.

#MastodonAppUK #Universeodon #FediMedi #MastoAdmin

Apologies for the blip there impacting a wide range of the sites we run ( #MastodonAppUK / #Universeodon / #FediMedi and for #MastoAdmin The Universeodon relay).

It looks like the NIC in one of our app servers had some sort of weird failure which prevented traffic on one of the two interfaces and due to it being setup in aggregation and not failover it caused a total outage of that server and all the VM's and CT's running on it.

We have also identified some issues with our secondary HAProxy instance which we need to get to the bottom of as things did not fail over as expected (Even though we know we haven't got full HA operational yet across all services because storage and RAM prices are through the roof and we need to add a third server for that).

Apologies again, we should be back to normal for now.

Just a quick note for #MastoAdmin 's using the #Universeodon Relay.

The relay is one of the last things to get moved now onto our new infrastructure, I'm about to start making the configuration changes and DNS updates which will mean our new load balancer infrastructure will start to serve requests for the relay as well as finally supporting IPv6 properly.

Later today I will then need to migrate the relay DB and config onto a new server so there will be a short outage later on to the relay while I do this.

Hiya! I'm a bookish person who enjoy browsing Mastodon posts but rarely toot myself. I first joined in Oct 2022, on the med-mastodon.com instance, but since it was about to be shut down, I've recently migrated to a new server.

I'm located in Sweden, enjoy browsing international news happenings, science and research articles, language and history, cat pictures and other heartwarming slice-of-life posts about other peoples' interests that calms my mind mid-scrolling. I like the Universeodon server rules; curiosity of mind and respectful behaviour sounds like a perfect fit.

#introduction #universeodon #medmastodon

I've just pushed a minor change to our infrastructure configuration for #MastodonAppUK and #Universeodon - I'm hoping this should fix some of the weird issues we've seen around IPv6 and it does mean that if our primary HAproxy server does go down for any reason the secondary server will take on the IPv6 connectivity as well.

I do need to look and see if I can do something smart to cover some IPv6 monitoring as right now IPv6 can silently fail and the site will still show as fully healthy.

Sorry for the blip there on #Universeodon (And then on both sites). It looks like our DB for Universeodon filled up and monitoring despite being configured seemingly doesn't alert on a lot of stuff right now which I now need to take a look at.

Our router also broke so DNS failed to resolve so I've had to give that a kick as well, we should be back up and running now :)

Just as a bit of notice for #MastodonAppUk and #Universeodon folks

There will be an outage later this evening to facilitate the work I need to do here at the dc. Hoping it won't take too long and I'll let folks know when I have an idea on time.

I'm just waiting now for a dc staff member to let me through the front gate as it's a weekend so nobody's normally here 😂