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Thank you, FOSS United!

A few days ago, our request to FOSS United's grant program was approved, and we are happy to announce that their grant of 20,000 INR (~230 EUR) will be able to finance our operations for the entire year! This will allow us to keep providing you access

State of Project Segfault: December 2024

Happy New Year! This month, we had only a few changes, but important ones at that. Website, Status and Internal services moved to the new UK Node The main website, blog, status page and core internal services of Project Segfault have now been moved to the UK Node. This will

State of Project Segfault: October + November 2024

New month, New blogpost! Today we have a lot to show you! During October nothing really noteworthy happened, but during November a lot of things have been changed or added which we feel should come to your notice!

State of Project Segfault: August + September 2024

Hello! It's been a month since we haven't updated you with the state of Project Segfault, we're still doing well, it just happened that I (Midou) didn't have much to talk about last month and preferred to start making blogposts when there

State of Project Segfault: July 2024

Hello, there haven't been much changes this month IN node disk and fan upgrade Thanks to our generous contributors (https://wiki.projectsegfau.lt/Credits) we were able to buy a new fan and a new 1TB NVMe drive (with DRAM!) to expand storage! We should no longer be

State of Project Segfault: June 2024

Hello this (very late) blogpost ! This month we have a lot of important news to inform you of, so please stick around: IN Node 2/3-day planned downtime from 13th July onward Since Arya, who hosts the IN Node, is shifting homes, there will be a downtime (2-3 days depending

State of Project Segfault: May 2024

This month was wayy more active than usual, and we got a lot of useful fixes, and a few new services :). Enjoy! New instance: Shoelace We are now hosting a new privacy frontend that allows you to see posts and users on instagram threads (the fediverse clone nobody likes) in

State of Project Segfault: April 2024

This month, we did not have many changes, but we did bring forth a few new services, and some changes to our infrastructure! Nitter has been revived Recently, we fixed our Nitter instance by using tokens from throwaway accounts! However, due to lack of accounts, and stricter rate limits, we

State of Project Segfault: March 2024

After Midou kept forgetting to write the blog post for the past 5 days, he finally remembered that it's getting too late to write the blog post, so here we go. This month haven't been seen many changes but nonetheless, there are still thinks to talk

State of Project Segfault: February 2024

Another month, another blog-post! This month, we had many changes, including yet another Pizza1 provider migration, a few Pubnix fixes, a new Domain registrar and more! Pizza1 migration, again Around the 19th of February, our previous provider for our EU Node (Pizza1), Nonic Cloud (a subsidiary of Oxide Hosting), notified

State of Project Segfault: Jan 2024

This month, we had many backend, changes, a few frontend tweaks, and finally, a new service as well! We are now at 200 users on the Pubnix! The Pubnix, around a year after its creation, has finally reached 200 users. We would like to thank all the users for making

State of Project Segfault: December 2023

Just before we start: Happy New Year :D This month, we had a few quality of life improvements to our services, and also have started steps to make our infrastructure more robust. Restructure and Ansiblization of IN Node After the instability on IN Node (probably due to the haphazard migration

State of Project Segfault: November 2023

This month, we weren't as active as before, but still managed to do some key infrastructure changes that will benefit the project :D. Server News Pizza1 Migrated to nonic.cloud After being forced to deal with the lack of resources on BuyVM for so long, we have finally

State of Project Segfault: October 2023

And once again we are back with the (somewhat late) state of Project Segfault! Nothing really happened in this month due to the previously mentioned reduced activity of Project Segfault so we can take care of our real life responsibilities for the time being. PIZZA-1's last month The

The Future of Project Segfault

So as you may have known, a few weeks ago Soleil Levant went offline. Its hoster, mrlerien, have grew enough of managing a used, dying server, for almost half a year. So we have decided to shut down soleil levant forever. Some Project Segfault services have been impacted by this:

State of Project Segfault: August 2023

Welp, this was a fun month. We started with IN Node crumbling to its last legs, and had many important changes like the US Node migration and Status VPS decommission, while we ended with Soleil Levant having disk failure. However, we still managed to bring forth some nice improvements to

About Soleil Levant's downtime

On the 27th of August 2023, around 8:30 PM UTC, Soleil Levant, our main server hosted in France, had heating issues. MrLeRien tried keeping part of the case open for better airflow but that didn't seem to help. In around another hour or two, we discovered that

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State of Project Segfault: July 2023

Hey! It's been a while now, and as usual we are going to report on what we did this month. This time Midou wrote this article, so it may be different than the other times, due to Devrand and Arya's lack of availability they couldn'

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State of Project Segfault: June 2023

This month we had some unfortunate events such as the IN Node DDoS and the failed Zen migration. However, we still got stuff done and recovered from our failures. We also had a new member join our team this month. Server News IN Node DDoS Near the beginning of this

State of Project Segfault: May 2023

This month, we made a lot of backend improvements, configured psf.lt domains for most of our services,  setup hourly snapshots for VMs on Soleil and more! Soleil Levant electricity issues (again) Here we go again, as foreshadowed by the feature image of last month's blogpost,  Soleil is

State of Project Segfault: April 2023

This month, we got a second domain, made many big optimizations to our matrix instance, setup daily backups, enabled HTTP/3 on all nodes, and more! New domain purchased We bought a new domain, psf.lt as a shorter alternative to projectsegfau.lt. We will be configuring it in the

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State of Project Segfault: March 2023

This month, we have made many optimizations, finally completed restructure, upgraded the India node, received a generous sum of donations, and more!

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State of Project Segfault: February 2023

This month had a lot of changes, ranging from the long-awaited ISP change on Soleil Levant, to the launch of the India Node & the pubnix and the website's rewrite!

We now have Tor Services, XMPP & some other news

Hello! We've gone ahead and set up Tor onion services for most of our Privacy Frontends/Services. You can find links to the new Tor services on https://projectsegfau.lt/instances. They have the Tor Onion logo on them, which will open the Onion link in your browser.

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Welcome Arya: Introducing Our New Sysadmin and Announcing Major Changes

Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉 Please welcome our new sysadmin, Arya. He's been a sysadmin for the ~vern project since its inception, and has now joined Project Segfault. He's presented us with different perspectives and ideas, as well as making significant contributions, that have allowed us to