The end of an era. I've had this machine at DigitalOcean for fifteen years (and before that, my blog was hosted out of a residential ADSL line), which is why I've been putting off migrating to Mythic Beasts for so long.

The General Situation has made it untenable to retain a server in the US, though, and migration wasn't as scary as I expected. I only have three major services running, so it was a few hours' work.

Side benefit: as Mythic Beasts don't have a reputation for their servers being used for spam, I no longer need to relay my outgoing mail through Google, which was (probably?) my last main link to their services.

If you've been thinking about moving something away from a US service, now's as good a time as any.

#selfhosted #degoogle