On Monday, June 26th, 2023 at 07:44:07 UTC, our esteemed host @self posted:
Federation came a few weeks later on 17 July. Our subs now have regulars from across Lemmy and Mastodon.
It’s been a wild party and we’re not stopping any time soon. Go wedgie a nerd today.
on Hetzner - actually looked into what if I move my personal box recently, and Hetzner are still it. the only comparable service for price is OVH and at least Hetzner can probably work a computer. there’s a reason large swathes of Mastodon are hosted on Hetzner or OVH and the reason has a dollar sign on the front.
god, OVH was fucking terrible when I tried them a few years ago. a lot of fediverse admins swear by them now though so either something changed or the bar for usable hosting and global outages lowered