Firstly, I really do apologise! CompuVerse has been down for a number of hours now, and I’m really sorry.
I’ll be 100% transparent on this, the server ran out of disk space! This sent it into a sort of “safe mode”, which unfortunately took down CompuVerse.
I have migrated all image storage over to an external server with a large amount more storage.
However, even with this, just the text content and metadata for CompuVerse is still rather large.
I’m going to investigate solutions but am averse to running a DB server over mounted storage as this is very susceptible to latency and speeds.
By my approximations we have around 2 months’ worth of disk space remaining now that Pictrs is removed. I’m looking for solutions in the meantime that will balance performance and cost effectively.
I did actually set up a Mastodon server previously, but decided to swap over to hosting Lemmy instead.
However, for future downtime, I’ve created a maintenance page, which I’ll switch over to, and provide whatever information I can.
You can see it over at https://holding.compuverse.uk/ :)