Since my post earlier this year, the world has changed¹.

Time to increase my self-hosted applications, and time to up sticks and move to EU-based server providers.

Plan

I am not looking forward to this move, because I find it difficult to list all ins-and-outs, and obviously I need to read up on the workings of Hetzner, but:

• move from Digitalocean (Frankfurt) to Hetzner GER/FIN (get more info via European Alternatives)
  • reinstall yunohost (reorganize all/most packages)
    • set up mail server
    • set up DNS/equivalent
      • set up all domains/clean up domains
      • move domains from one registrar to another registrar (TransIP: you really upped your prices big time!)
      • read up on Varnish
  • set up backup/Borg for server(s) (hetzner + yunohost)
  • set up CDN/S3 storage
• reinstall/move mastodon, incl domain Migrating to a new machine - mastodon
• move pixelfed from yunohost to seperate server with pixelfed-glitch
  • how to move the database + images?
• continue all the work-in-progress, as posted in All about Taking Control
• check on pikapods apps: too much data to move to self hosted servers?
• (preferabley) save some money - DigitalOcean droplets ready to delete in 1-2 months
• write documentation on what is where and how/why for future reference

Footnotes

1. I am glad I had already started my move away from BigTech, but I want to speed up the process. ↩