Apologies for kbin.earth being down today.
Sorry that kbin.earth has been down today. Apparently, several people had issues yesterday, but I hadn't realized the full extent due to Matrix severely delaying my notifications.
The server unfortunately crashed while I was unavailable for the day, so I wasn't aware of the issue and couldn't fix it till I got back.
As an aside and general note for everyone, I don't intend on ever shutting down kbin.earth without notice. I also don't intend on completely disappearing either; I don't want people needing to wonder if something happened to me. If I plan to shut down kbin.earth (which I don't btw), I will give as much warning in advance as I can. (I'm not going to be a repeat of kbin.run)
Today only occurred due to an unfortunate combination of technology issues (my failure to receive Matrix notifications and the server crashing) and unavailability.
Again, sorry for the inconvenience. Best regards.
Dear god I almost went outside too!
Nah more seriously, thanks for keeping the instance running. It's remarkably reliable considering it's (so far as I know) just you
Lol :)
Thank you for the kind words! Yeah it is just me on the server side. We do at least have several admins now for moderation though.
Sorry for your almost trauma.
+1
Jwr1 is doing a great job and I'm thankful for this server.
Also, I haven't forgotten about the federation lag (mentioned here) and am still investigating it.
Honestly I was more worried about you than the server.
I appreciate it, but I was literally just busy for the day, no need to worry about me.
Hi jwr1, No worries and thanks so much for all you do for us!
Im not on your instance but this is such a nice update on the situation. im impressed.
Maybe you could setup Uptime Kuma . You can setup notifications over a variety of providers (I use ntfy) so you notice when your server is down :)
On that note. You could also try to setup Monit. Which will also monitor your services, but will try to automatically repair your services in case of down time.