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We are up an running on a new host!
We are up an running on a new host! - The TTRPG network
The migration is complete and we’re up and running. You might notice some small data loss, but hopefully nothing major. As a recap, our current host is going out of business, so we were required to move to a new one. As part of this migration, we also moved to using object storage on backblaze instead of local storage. All of this should mostly be transparent to the users. One thing not transparent is that old.ttrpg.network is currently not back up yet. Not sure when/if we will be able to support it on the new host yet, so stay tuned. As an aside, this is probably a good time to shill for the site; Due to this migration and change, costs are going up. Not majorly, but still going up none-the-less. So in light of that, i just want to mention that we have a ko-fi [https://ko-fi.com/thettrpgnetwork], which currently rakes in a whopping $0 per month (we had some early donations way back in the beginning, but that’s two years ago). The site is free to use and will continue to be so, but anything you feel like donating is always appreciated. Even a dollar or two helps.
FYI - I HAVE TAKEN THE FINAL BACKUPS BEFORE MIGRATION
FYI - I HAVE TAKEN THE FINAL BACKUPS BEFORE MIGRATION - The TTRPG network
Just wanted to let everyone know, I have taken the final backups before migration. I decided to leave the site up for now while the backup is worked on at the new host THIS MEANS ALL POSTS/DATA GOING FORWARD WILL NOT BE LIVE ON THE NEW HOST. I’m leaving this up only for convenience of the users to continue to browse the fediverse. Note that any comments and posts you send out will be federated, but they won’t be on the new host once we are up and running. There will be an outage at some point this weekend as we swap over to the new host.
Planning to migrate to a new host this weekend (12/12 - 12/14)
Planning to migrate to a new host this weekend (12/12 - 12/14) - The TTRPG network
We will target migrating to a new hosting service this weekend. The site will probably be taken down sometime on 12/12/2025 to perform final backups from our current host and uploading to the new host. The weekend will then be set aside for migration on to the new host. I don’t think it should take longer than sunday 12/14/2025, in fact i would hope it would be done before then, but we will see. I don’t have exact times it will be happening, just depends on how everything lines up.
Object storage migration is complete! Next step is hosting migration
Object storage migration is complete! Next step is hosting migration - The TTRPG network
Hey all, just an update, our object storage migration mentioned in the previous announcement is complete; We should be using the new backend for image storage now and image uploads should be re-enabled. The next step in our migration will be migrating to a brand new host, which should be happening sometime in the next few weeks. The actual migration will likely result in down time, but i will give heads up before we start. Also let me know if you run into any problems or issues
Just an update: after a few hiccups and a late start, its been chugging along; It’s around 1/3rd of the way done, currently. Didn’t get started until late yesterday, and the process died a few times, but its been running just fine most of today. If i had to guesstimate, it’s probably gotten a good ~12-14 hours of run time to get to this point
Beginning probably tomorrow (12/2/2025) we will be migrating our image hosting to object storage
Beginning probably tomorrow (12/2/2025) we will be migrating our image hosting to object storage - The TTRPG network
Just an FYI, as part of our migration off of our current host, it’s become apparent that we’re going to need to migrate our image hosting to object storage. The change should be rather seamless from the front-end perspective outside of the migration window, but during the migration window, our image hosting capabilities will be offline. I’m not sure how long it will take (the current image hosting data is fairly large) so it could be a bit of a prolonged outage. Text posts, and commenting should all work, image hosting and thumbnails will be broken. You can still link to external image hosting such as imgur.com [http://imgur.com], but it won’t generate a thumbnail. I’ll update here when it is complete, but as of right now, i would plan for a potential multi-day outage.
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Releasing a space-faring arthurian knights TTRPG ive been working on for a little while now
Looking for lemmy hosting service recommendations
Looking for lemmy hosting service recommendations - The TTRPG network
Hello! I’m an admin on ttrpg.network. Recently, our hosting provider let us know that they are going out of business. I’m trying to find a new provider to migrate to. A little bit of information, i would like: 1) Not to self host - I travel a lot for work, and i can’t guarantee that my home internet/server is always available. 2) Prefer a managed service if possible - Again, due to the above, if something goes wrong while i’m out of town, I might not have time to troubleshoot issues for a week or more. My current service is a managed service, so I can open tickets if something goes wrong and have their support team look in to it. Googling, the only other service i can find that has managed services is elest.io [https://elest.io/open-source/lemmy], which mostly just looks like a wrapper for services like AWS and others, and the server configurations look like they might get pretty pricey to get anything near comparable. Currently, our instance uses around ~1 TB of data after backup and everything is included, and we have a 4TB quota at our current host, 8 GB of ram, and I’m not entirely sure of the CPU or anything. All for around ~$25 USD/month. Does anyone have any recommendations?