Joel KaasinenApr 1

End of an era. In 2008, we founded what was effectively a small co-op, Fixme Internet-käyttäjät ry. The idea was to operate a small server and provide virtual machines for members.

I remember one friend's reaction to the project clearly: "I don't need a 300€ IRC shell!"

People have come and gone, but me and a couple of others have remained through the years. Finally, today, I powered down the last iteration of our servers, a two-node Ganeti cluster, with my co-maintainer Tero.

Show threadJoel Kaasinen

Why stop now that data sovereignty is a topic again? Well, to put it bluntly, we're old and tired.

Also, the hardware and much of the software was pretty much over EOL. I can't in good conscience keep operating something that might fail at any moment, but that people are also relying on.

Back in the 2010s, maintaining servers and running virtualisation platforms was a cool hobby, but the cloud has definitely commoditised this. Not just economically, but spiritually.

Apr 1 at 10:26amWeb
Show threadJoel KaasinenApr 1
TIL it's sovereignty not sovereignity. Thanks spellcheck!