Yesterday, the fedia.io server locked up. I was able to reboot it remotely and it came up clean. After less than an hour, the server froze again. This happened several more times throughout the day. Unfortunately, there were no logs recording what happened, and nothing on the console - just frozen hardware.

I contacted Hetzner early this morning and they diagnosed the server as having a faulty motherboard. Hetzner replaced the board and rebooted the server, and so far the server has been stable.

I have had pretty bad luck with this particular model of server from Hetzner, so I do not have confidence that this won’t happen again, and so will be looking to migrate to a different type of server that is hopefully more stable and less expensive (I am losing my job at the end of June, and so need to save all the cash I can).

  • GadgeteerZA@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    @jerry@fedia.io wow OK that is worrying me a bit now. I just moved to Hetzner about 3 months back. As far as I’ve seen, mine has stayed online OK - it’s a VPS though, so maybe not affected then as it is not dedicated server hardware. I moved to them as they really seemed to offer more bang for less bucks versus my previous two server hosting providers.

    • jerry@fedia.ioOPM
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      6 months ago

      To be clear, I have used a lot of Hetzner servers and I’ve only had issues with this particular model of bare metal server.

  • DARbarian@kbin.run
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    5 months ago

    @jerry@fedia.io You are amazing for putting in the work you do! Any chance you know when signups for fedia.io will open back up?

    • jerry@fedia.ioOPM
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      5 months ago

      I’ll open the back up. An issue with mbin is that there’s no way to moderate new accounts, and so I have been battling massive amounts of spam, and the moderation interface for mbin is not super efficient, so it creates a LOT of work.