I talked to @Manu Krishnan T V tonight and he has agreed to provide space for backup (server without direct ipv4 address, but should be enough to run rdiff-backup).

@Akshay we could keep the db dump and media for a bit longer, if we find someone with enough storage, just in case someone wants to resurrect it later. I have some 500GB free rsync.net account which I can spare if that is well below 500GB (keeping some space for my personal usage). The home server itself people can easily migrate, but the pirate irc bridge is a unique value (irc v3 on the other side, none of the matrix.org bridged irc rooms are on irc v3 yet I guess), even if the number of users is less.

@Abhas Abhinav thanks. Currently the authentication is done with https://git.fosscommunity.in/necessary129/synapse-diaspora-auth against the diaspora database. If we are moving synapse to a different machine, we will have to setup an SSH tunnel or something to have it authenticate against the diaspora database. Or move diaspora+matrix+xmpp together if you are ok with hosting those too.

@praveenarimbrathod Hosting diaspora and xmpp together with matrix is not an issue.

However, how about migrating the authentication to an independent service?

This could be done with OpenLDAP, or even a database. On top of this authentication database, we could build a SSO service such as Keycloak (or Authentik). That way all applications could off-load authentication to SSO and user's get single sign-on convenience and functionality for free.

In future, other community-maintained websites and applications could re-use this SSO system (via OpenID Connect etc.) for easier roll out to the all free-software community members.

@Abhas Abhinav diaspora don't support openldap. If we can have keyclock (or authentik) in front of diaspora db, that is fine too. I think it is better to migrate the current setup first and work on this in parallel else migration will take longer.

@Abhas Abhinav when can we get access to the server so we can plan the server migration.

@praveenarimbrathod

Sorry for the delay. I will provision and give access to the new server today. Where can I get access to SSH keys to be added for root access to the server?

Would the following config be good?

Bare metal server at OVH Mumbai
Intel Xeon-E 2386G - 6c/12t - 3.5GHz/4.7GHz
32GB RAM
4TB x 2 SATA OR 500GB NVME x2 (Software RAID 1)

There is a significant discount for commiting to use the server for 24 months. I have chosen that option. Hope that looks good.

@Abhas Abhinav This looks fine to me. We will need to with the SATA option as we will need more than 500 GB storage. My ssh keys ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIIRp1HLd/jhH8t1OE0A950ml1nCLh3ryELpD1wqJKZgV pravi@ilvala2

Hopefully others will share their keys as well. Can we take a disk dump and restore? That will be the easiest method. Hetzner has a recovery mode which we can use, hopefully OVH will have something similar.

@Abhas Abhinav can we get it by Jan 10th? I think only then we will have enough time to migrate to the new server before Jan 31st deadline set by current server sponsors.

@Abhas Abhinav Did you get the server already? Or should we drop the matrix plan? We are running out of time till the current sponsors have committed to pay - they are going to pay only till January 31st.

Since we don't have access to the server promised by @Abhas Abhinav yet, I'm not sure if we can do the matrix migration by January 31st.

Meeting now at https://meet.nixnet.services/b/pir-akd-3vx as announced on the matrix group earlier.

From today's meeting: We will drop synapse behind (Since Abhas was the only person interested to keep it and he is not reachable/responding for over a month and half and deadline for migration is fast approaching) and move to infomaniak public cloud with just diaspora and prosody.

We are now running on the new Infomaniak public cloud server. See https://gitlab.com/piratemovin/diasp.in/-/issues/67 for the issues. Thanks a lot to @weepingclown who did most of the work. Thanks also to @Pirate Bady , @Athul , Suhail, deadman and everyone else who helped. Thanks also to @sahilister and @Raju Devidas for maintaining it till now and also to @Dhanesh , @Pirate Vik and others who were maintaining it before. We should create a credits page and list all the people who contributed so far. If anyone wants to keep the synapse and pirateirc bridge db and configs till the Infomaniak offer of 300 Euro for 3 months remains valid, that would be great, so @Abhas Abhinav or anyone else feels like resuming matrix during that period can do it.

With this migration hosting charges are down to ~1000 INR (we will know exact amount later as we are using more resources than we need right now for initial setup).

Thanks to Akhil Varkey, we have taken an sql dump of synapse db. We will keep it till the free 300 credits from Infomaniak lasts (3 months). @Abhas Abhinav if you are still interested (or if anyone else is interested) to continue running the matrix service, you can use this option.

I have deleted the synapse backup today as free credits are over. @weepingclown please share the monthly expenses so we can find people to donate.

There's great advantage in deleting/simplification. Makes life a lot easy. Allows one to focus on the things that really matter, etc. I support dropping diaspora (just like dropping matrix).

But preserving links by making a static dump would be awesome.

@Akshay https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17412199/export-static-htmlcssjs-from-rails there is a gem for this https://middlemanapp.com/ or we could get wget dump with https://diasp.in/public (which could include spam) so may be just the public profiles we want diasp.in/u/<username>

One more step towards the future.

Beta testing of XMPP accounts at durare.org is now open!