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RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116974442462944015
⚠️ mountainance ⚠️
This coming Monday 16:00 CEST an important security update will released. Therefore I will be performing maintenance on Monday afternoon / beginning of the evening (exact time unclear, but please expect some hiccups around that time.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116974442462944015
⚠️ mountainance ⚠️
This coming Monday 16:00 CEST an important security update will released. Therefore I will be performing maintenance on Monday afternoon / beginning of the evening (exact time unclear, but please expect some hiccups around that time.
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ℹ️ accounting mountains.* ℹ️
All bills over June have arrived and paid. Took some time to update the balance sheet.
As mentioned in March the bills for the server have gone up (higher prices RAM and storage). Also the AI scraping causes the media buckets to be larger than needed (as media stays "hot" for a longer than wanted time).
The servers (especially for mountains.social) are running without a lot of buffer room (memory usage higher then desired, but wanting to save costs), but as long the servers are performing good enough, I'm not going to increase them.
That said, with the upgrade to Mastodon version 4.6 the load on the server increased ever so slightly, so the alarm bells are going off regularly. For now I'm going to adjust the thresholds for alerting, as increasing the VM for mountains.social would increase the cost by a factor 2.66 (bigger machine with also new and higher prices starting from June).
Currently model CX33 (6.49 EUR ex VAT under the current prices). Next larger model CX43 would cost 17.29 EUR ex VAT).
Full details: https://mountains.community/behind-the-scenes#accounting
Again a very warm thank you to all who donated this month or in the past! 🙏
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ℹ️ accounting mountains.* ℹ️
All bills over June have arrived and paid. Took some time to update the balance sheet.
As mentioned in March the bills for the server have gone up (higher prices RAM and storage). Also the AI scraping causes the media buckets to be larger than needed (as media stays "hot" for a longer than wanted time).
The servers (especially for mountains.social) are running without a lot of buffer room (memory usage higher then desired, but wanting to save costs), but as long the servers are performing good enough, I'm not going to increase them.
That said, with the upgrade to Mastodon version 4.6 the load on the server increased ever so slightly, so the alarm bells are going off regularly. For now I'm going to adjust the thresholds for alerting, as increasing the VM for mountains.social would increase the cost by a factor 2.66 (bigger machine with also new and higher prices starting from June).
Currently model CX33 (6.49 EUR ex VAT under the current prices). Next larger model CX43 would cost 17.29 EUR ex VAT).
Full details: https://mountains.community/behind-the-scenes#accounting
Again a very warm thank you to all who donated this month or in the past! 🙏
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✅ media bucket issue ✅
Everything seems to work stable again. In case you experience issues, let me know.
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✅ media bucket issue ✅
Everything seems to work stable again. In case you experience issues, let me know.
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⚠️ media bucket issue ⚠️
I can still see some issues with uploading. We will need to be patient a bit.
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⚠️ media bucket issue ⚠️
I can still see some issues with uploading. We will need to be patient a bit.
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⚠️ issue with media bucket⚠️
Currently it appears there are intermittent issues with the @upcloud S3 buckets that we use on mountains.social and mountains.photos. Media might not upload or show. Am keeping an eye on it. Sorry.
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⚠️ issue with media bucket⚠️
Currently it appears there are intermittent issues with the @upcloud S3 buckets that we use on mountains.social and mountains.photos. Media might not upload or show. Am keeping an eye on it. Sorry.
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ℹ️ mountainance ℹ️
On mountains.social I have just upgraded Mastodon to version 4.6.3 that was released today.
Full release notes:
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ℹ️ mountainance ℹ️
On mountains.social I have just upgraded Mastodon to version 4.6.3 that was released today.
Full release notes:
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ℹ️ custom themes ℹ️
Got the issue with the custom themes sorted and implemented them now on mountains.social.
When using the web UI you can now choose between the default Mastodon theme or the Tangerine UI theme (by @matt_birchler) and the Bird UI (by @rolle). In case you never saw them, go try them out!
Thanks to both of them for these beautiful themes. 💚
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ℹ️ custom themes ℹ️
Got the issue with the custom themes sorted and implemented them now on mountains.social.
When using the web UI you can now choose between the default Mastodon theme or the Tangerine UI theme (by @matt_birchler) and the Bird UI (by @rolle). In case you never saw them, go try them out!
Thanks to both of them for these beautiful themes. 💚
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ℹ️ accounting mountains.* ℹ️
Accounting done for month of May for mountains.* (June to follow as soon as the Hetzner bill comes in).
Because of AI scrapers the media remains "hot" longer than needed and therefore the storage costs also increased. 🤬
Full history:
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ℹ️ accounting mountains.* ℹ️
Accounting done for month of May for mountains.* (June to follow as soon as the Hetzner bill comes in).
Because of AI scrapers the media remains "hot" longer than needed and therefore the storage costs also increased. 🤬
Full history:
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✅ mountainance ✅
The upgrade to version 4.6.2 has been done, together with the upgrade to ffmpeg 8.1.2 to fix a security issue. Topped it off with installing the latest Linux patches and a reboot, to make it fresh like a daisy.
You can find the new features of version 4.6 in the following blog:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6
Note: I did not install the Tangerine and Bird UI themes just yet. Am having a small conflict with them on the sandbox system which I first want to iron out.
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✅ mountainance ✅
The upgrade to version 4.6.2 has been done, together with the upgrade to ffmpeg 8.1.2 to fix a security issue. Topped it off with installing the latest Linux patches and a reboot, to make it fresh like a daisy.
You can find the new features of version 4.6 in the following blog:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6
Note: I did not install the Tangerine and Bird UI themes just yet. Am having a small conflict with them on the sandbox system which I first want to iron out.
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⚠️ mountainance ⚠️
Tonight at 20:00 CEST I will upgrade mountains.social from version 4.5.11 to the latest 4.6.2. Will include also some regular maintenance that has been piling up during my holidays. There will be some short unavailabilities along the way.
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⚠️ mountainance ⚠️
Tonight at 20:00 CEST I will upgrade mountains.social from version 4.5.11 to the latest 4.6.2. Will include also some regular maintenance that has been piling up during my holidays. There will be some short unavailabilities along the way.
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This type of sign-up request had increased a lot in the last few weeks. Plausible reasons (not always the same) and targeted for the instance (although "discussions" and "connect" always heightens my awareness) but with throw-away mail addresses and constructed usernames. I hate AI.
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This type of sign-up request had increased a lot in the last few weeks. Plausible reasons (not always the same) and targeted for the instance (although "discussions" and "connect" always heightens my awareness) but with throw-away mail addresses and constructed usernames. I hate AI.
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ℹ️ new Mastodon release ℹ️
The new Mastodon release 4.6.0 just got released. As I'm travelling I will not upgrade mountains.social immediately (do not want to risk issues spoiling my holidays). You will have to wait until later this month.
As the Dutch say: What’s in the barrel won’t go sour.
Enjoy version 4.5.11 while you still can!
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ℹ️ new Mastodon release ℹ️
The new Mastodon release 4.6.0 just got released. As I'm travelling I will not upgrade mountains.social immediately (do not want to risk issues spoiling my holidays). You will have to wait until later this month.
As the Dutch say: What’s in the barrel won’t go sour.
Enjoy version 4.5.11 while you still can!
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ℹ️ Hetzner price increase ℹ️
Seems that Hetzner once again raised their prices, however only for new servers or servers that are rescaled. Currently for mountains.* we are correctly sized, so no increase anticipated for the moment.
https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment
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ℹ️ Hetzner price increase ℹ️
Seems that Hetzner once again raised their prices, however only for new servers or servers that are rescaled. Currently for mountains.* we are correctly sized, so no increase anticipated for the moment.
https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment
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ℹ️ blocking email domains ℹ️
I have started to block email domains for account registration.
This is primarily focused on disposal mail address domains. The amount of AI generated / spam requests has increased significantly the past weeks.
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ℹ️ blocking email domains ℹ️
I have started to block email domains for account registration.
This is primarily focused on disposal mail address domains. The amount of AI generated / spam requests has increased significantly the past weeks.
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✅ mountainance ✅
I just upgraded mountains.social to version 4.5.11 which just came out, closing one medium and one high security issue.
Release notes:
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✅ mountainance ✅
I just upgraded mountains.social to version 4.5.11 which just came out, closing one medium and one high security issue.
Release notes:
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⚠️ mountainance ⚠️
Quick reboot of mountains.social and mountains.photos in 15 min from now to finish some regular maintenance.
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⚠️ mountainance ⚠️
Quick reboot of mountains.social and mountains.photos in 15 min from now to finish some regular maintenance.
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✅ mountainance ✅
The maintenance has been completed by Hetzner.
Queued requests are be processed momentarily.
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✅ mountainance ✅
The maintenance has been completed by Hetzner.
Queued requests are be processed momentarily.
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⚠️ mountainance ⚠️
I will stop the system in 5 minutes. Will keep you updated via our status page:
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⚠️ mountainance ⚠️
I will stop the system in 5 minutes. Will keep you updated via our status page:
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‼️⚠️ mountainance ⚠️‼️
Next week Tuesday May 26th we will have an extended maintenance window on mountains.social from 06:20 - 07:40 CEST.
Information Hetzner (where we are running the instance):
"Due to a critical software update, it is necessary to upgrade the network components to a new version. Because of an incompatibility between the versions, the updates on the redundant switches must be carried out simultaneously. As a result, despite the redundant network setup, a temporary unavailability of the affected services during the maintenance window cannot be avoided."
We have our database for mountains.social running on a volume which is affected by this maintenance. Therefore we need to shutdown the DB and unmount the volume to safeguard the integrity of the database.
Full information and status can be found here:
https://status.hetzner.com/incident/6fa3344d-f062-411d-a49b-704c5048a4ba
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‼️⚠️ mountainance ⚠️‼️
Next week Tuesday May 26th we will have an extended maintenance window on mountains.social from 06:20 - 07:40 CEST.
Information Hetzner (where we are running the instance):
"Due to a critical software update, it is necessary to upgrade the network components to a new version. Because of an incompatibility between the versions, the updates on the redundant switches must be carried out simultaneously. As a result, despite the redundant network setup, a temporary unavailability of the affected services during the maintenance window cannot be avoided."
We have our database for mountains.social running on a volume which is affected by this maintenance. Therefore we need to shutdown the DB and unmount the volume to safeguard the integrity of the database.
Full information and status can be found here:
https://status.hetzner.com/incident/6fa3344d-f062-411d-a49b-704c5048a4ba
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ℹ️ mountainance ℹ️
I just upgraded mountains.social to Mastodon version 4.5.10 which contains several medium and high severity security fixes.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.10
Just fyi, I have a lot on my plate at the moment, so did not have the time to announce this up front.
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ℹ️ mountainance ℹ️
I just upgraded mountains.social to Mastodon version 4.5.10 which contains several medium and high severity security fixes.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.10
Just fyi, I have a lot on my plate at the moment, so did not have the time to announce this up front.
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⚠️ mountainance ⚠️
At 12:30 CEST (in about half an hour) I'm going to reboot mountains.social and mountains.photos to finish off some regular maintenance. Should not take long.
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⚠️ mountainance ⚠️
At 12:30 CEST (in about half an hour) I'm going to reboot mountains.social and mountains.photos to finish off some regular maintenance. Should not take long.
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ℹ️ Accounting April 2026 ℹ️
Did the accounting for mountains.* and the new Hetzner prices put 10.50 EUR on the monthly bill. This means we are still in the black numbers for the month.
We have a new generous donor to the community. Normally I thank them personally, but in this case this is not possible as it is an anonymous one. So via this way, thanks a lot, very much appreciated!
Full history: https://mountains.community/behind-the-scenes#accounting
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ℹ️ Accounting April 2026 ℹ️
Did the accounting for mountains.* and the new Hetzner prices put 10.50 EUR on the monthly bill. This means we are still in the black numbers for the month.
We have a new generous donor to the community. Normally I thank them personally, but in this case this is not possible as it is an anonymous one. So via this way, thanks a lot, very much appreciated!
Full history: https://mountains.community/behind-the-scenes#accounting