Post #1352766

2024-09-07 08:49 UTC

Second: we are currently pondering a migration to a different hosting provider, that at the moment will halve our monthly bill, and as a goody we will get also elastic search included with the price, which is great. Unfortunately, it'll break all the links to our existing media content, which means it'll look as a fresh start, in a way. I know it sucks, but it'll guarantee us a future. The server will still be hosted in the EU. Before moving on with the migration, what do you think? 2/2

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@compfu@mograph.social 2024-09-07 17:56

@mauro that sounds cool except for the loss of all media. Why would that happen? Isn’t there a way to migrate this from one server to the next? Even if there are hardcoded URLs to mograph.social they should remain accessible? (Trying to understand this from a technical pov. I have no idea about how Masto works….)

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@kotlasu@mograph.social 2024-09-08 07:52

@mauro Seems weird when domain stays the same and you fully migrate a database. Everything that’s on the current server *should* work. Anyway - go for it, it’s nice to break stuff fast (just make sure to have an offline database & files backup) ;D

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@kotlasu@mograph.social 2024-09-08 07:54

@mauro Consider asking users to backup their account to be extra safe: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/06/how-to-migrate-from-one-server-to-another/

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@kotlasu@mograph.social 2024-09-08 07:57

@mauro There’s a migration instruction and it doesn’t mention any broken links / cleanup (so maybe send them this link and ask if following instructions this will prevent the mess): https://docs-p.joinmastodon.org/admin/migrating/

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