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Hearing today about summer interns struggling to find any kind of housing at all because their work city is hosting World Cup games. )-:

Good. Hopefully it means that they hired a few good admins.
The worst thing to happen to email was providers of other services bundling email at prices less than it should cost to provide high quality service.
It has deprofressionalized email. The pressure on email operations to cost nothing has squeezed out high competence admins and left the largest operations mysterious black boxes to the people who run them.

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Rackspace raises email hosting prices by as much as 706 percent Rackspace tells Ars that hosted email is still a part of its "mission." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/rackspace-raises-email-hosting-prices-by-as-much-as-706-percent/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I would have expected so much more from the Olympics… they always seemed like such a moral bunch. @… https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/116056944…

Changed the hosting on my site and also changed the registrar for the domain, and it seems it is loading alright.
(It is just a simple text-only page right now. Someday I may make it look cooler and/or be bigger.)
https://www.davidaugust.com/

Strato: Störungen beim E-Mail-Abruf
Der Hosting-Anbieter Strato hat derzeit mit Störungen bei seinen E-Mail-Diensten zu kämpfen. Es sollen jedoch alle ankommen.
https://www.heise.de/news/Strato-Stoerunge…

Hey @…
I want to migrate my email to you. My plan was
1. Set up hosting with you
2. Move the contents of my IMAP folders over
3. Point my MX records at you on the old DNS provider
4. Let everything stabilise
5. Transfer the domain to you and point the MX records at you from you.
Is that sensible? I've got as far…

Can't wait for the seemingly inevitable revelation that McSweeney advised the Prime Minister to open a Substack account.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newslet…

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Hat von euch jemand eine Empfehlung für einen Anbieter von Nextcloud-Hosting? Darf Geld kosten, muss nicht DE sein, EU würde mir reichen. Und nein, selber betreiben ist keine Option. Ich möchte das einfach nur benutzen, aber nicht administrieren.
Update: es läuft vermutlich auf eine Evaluierung (und Test-Betrieb) der Angebote von Hetzner und hosting.de raus. Danke für eure Rückmeldungen.

Lehrstück, wie man das Geschäft verbocken kann:
#HostEurope stoppt die geplante Umstellung der #Email Postfächer auf Microsoft 365 und setzt die Abschaltung des Classic Hosting aus.
Viele Kunden hatten wegen zusätzlicher Kosten und des Umzugs in die

Host Europe stoppt E-Mail-Umstellung auf Microsoft 365
Host Europe stoppt die Umstellung der E-Mail-Postfächer auf Microsoft 365 und setzt die Einstellung des Classic-Hosting-Angebots aus.

I've emailed him to suggest that he takes a look at the Fediverse.
How I've learned that certainty is the thing to really fear - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w5z1d447lo

I’m looking for a commercial Mastodon hosting solution for a small organization… I know of @… but are there others out there worth looking at?
#mastodon #fediverse

Some non-news, but good to raise awareness.
TL;DR "structural waste amplified by CI/CD pipelines, security scanners, and AI-driven code generation"
... just cache your stuff or pay for hosting, thanks.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/28/open_source_opinio…

Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull
Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

„Komfort“ nennt Bastian Gruber das Apple-Ökosystem – und zerlegt es als strukturelle Abhängigkeit: alles hängt an der Apple-ID. Sein Gegenentwurf: Self-Hosting. Technisch machbar, aber komplex. Mein Fazit: Ohne einfache Migrationspfade bleibt das ein Nischenthema für Nerds und man kann nur Einzelteile raus lösen
#SelfHosting

🎭🎉✨🥳
Helau, ihr Bürger, groß und klein,
heut’ schenk’ ich eurem Chef mal ein!
Im Rathaus sitzt er, hoch zu Ross,
in seinem kleinen Spesenschloss.
Ich mein' den Chef vom Ort, den Ehrenmann,
den man auch Bürgermeister nennen kann.

Moment of Gratitude, this time for GitHub.com
I have been having fun with claude-code and have been using github in ways I did not know existed (like hosting docker images), and so easy! (and, I think, for free)
Thank you GitHub!
https://brewster.kahle.org/2026/02/01…

Hey #sandiego , sick of Microsoft's crap? Curious about #Linux ? The Central Library is hosting System Setup Saturdays every week this month.
I'll be there with installers for Mint, Zorin, Debian, Bodhi, CachyOS, and Fedora. Check it out, ask questions, or take the plunge.
We can go …

I'm just so glad that I didn't decide to rely on vimeo for hosting my videos. I got aware of peertube just at the right time.
Besides that I really wonder how bending spoons manages to continue service when firing the staff. On the other hand, maybe the systems are just well developed and thus quite robust.

Vimeo is laying off staff globally after its $1.38 billion sale to Bending Spoons
Vimeo is letting go of workers globally in a new round of layoffs after selling its business to tech-holding company Bending Spoons.

Is anyone maintaining an active list of hotels chains hosting ICE? I want to make sure folks know what companies are profiting from fascist terrorism.
These folks have no shame. But they do care about losing business.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6yde3

Host Europe stoppt E-Mail-Umstellung auf Microsoft 365
Host Europe stoppt die Umstellung der E-Mail-Postfächer auf Microsoft 365 und setzt die Einstellung des Classic-Hosting-Angebots aus.
https://www.

📰 Einem US-amerikanischen Konzern Geld aus der Tasche zu leiern, um damit Hosting-Rechnungen zu bezahlen, kann man machen.
Aber viel schöner und besser ist die Unterstützung durch die Community.
Dank Euch kann ich die Amazon-Affiliate-Links jetzt schrittweise löschen. Dauert, aber das Jahr ist noch jung. 😁
Bitte unterstütze meine Arbeit weiterhin mit einer #Steady-Fördermitglied…

KlimaCrew
Ich informiere über Zukunftsthemen, um Menschen vor Risiken zu warnen und Fortschritte sichtbar zu machen.

Emdash, CloudFlare's "spiritual successor to WordPress" has been released.
Some of my findings
* Install/onboarding for non-technical users is simply not present (They will need hosting with Node.JS or deploy on CF.
* No ability to install plugins via ACP (Has to be through a config file)
* No theming options? (Might just be the 'playground' that it might not be on)
* Basic WYSIWYG editor
To me, it is like the old versions of

Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS with modern security, running plugins in sandboxed Worker isolates.

The problem with relying on commercial services for hosting any of your blog content is that they may only be around 10 or 15 years.
My blog has been around for 29 years and every now and then I need to fix up a bunch of posts from a decade ago because some service shut down.
My personal site (paid for by doing side jobs for people) has outlasted corporations with VC backing and overpaid CEOs who failed.

🎭️🎉✨️🥳
Helau und Alaaf, ihr lieben Leut’,
heut’ wird gelacht, nicht lang bereut!
Ich hab’ euch einen mitgebracht,
bei dem die Wahrheit Pause macht.
Wenn er berichtet – hört gut zu –
wird aus ’ner Maus ein Känguru!…

Question for Fedi:
What is the best way to get started with self-hosting PeerTube? I have an S3 compatible storage thing setup (Backblaze B2 - love it!), so mostly concerned about transcoding - I have a Digital Ocean droplet which is fine for websites, but not great for more intensive stuff. How intensive is transcoding and can I do that locally and just upload all versions to B2 and skip transcoding altogether?

📰 Einem US-amerikanischen Konzern Geld aus der Tasche zu leiern, um damit Hosting-Rechnungen zu bezahlen, kann man machen.
Aber viel schöner und besser ist die Unterstützung durch die Community.
Dank Euch kann ich die Amazon-Affiliate-Links jetzt schrittweise löschen. Dauert, aber das Jahr ist noch jung. 😁
Bitte unterstütze meine Arbeit weiterhin mit einer #Steady-Fördermitglied…

KlimaCrew
Ich informiere über Zukunftsthemen, um Menschen vor Risiken zu warnen und Fortschritte sichtbar zu machen.

made up a guy: furry who is disappointed that goopics.net is just a regular image hosting site

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Host Europe stoppt E-Mail-Umstellung auf Microsoft 365
https://w…

Next Weekend, in Philadelphia, United Lutheran Seminary is hosting "A Vision for Liberating our Democracy Conference." The lineup of speakers is exciting!
Register here https://ulsforms.wufoo.com/forms/q18pafoo1rjzis3/

With a name like that, do we trust them or *not* trust them?
https://1984.hosting/

RE: https://mastodon.design/@amxmln/115940713056928796
“I’m glad most of my projects don’t need any backend beyond static file hosting, as that significantly limits attack surface and maintenance pressure. I’m just a single person with a busy life, but as I…

The UN is looking for a new home for its Climate Technology Centre—the hub that helps developing nations access critical climate tech for adaptation and mitigation.
This is a major opportunity: the hosting mandate runs until 2041, positioning the selected organization at the center of global climate technology cooperation.
Proposals due March 16, 2026.

Pop Quiz: Which possesses a heart and a soul?
#irony #satire #Melania #robot

RE: https://mastodon.online/@rakekniven/116272215807640783
Menschen auf der Suche nach Nextcloud-Hosting sollten wissen, dass dieser Anbieter offensichtlich KI-Slop erzeugen lässt und verbreitet. Soll jede*r selbst entscheiden.

The Minocqua Brewing Company is famously anti-Trump, and very progressive, but when I told them to dump Substack because they platform and support Nazis they told me to "get over it" because all other platforms have "bent the knee".
Sigh...
I did reply telling them about Ghost and about self-hosting as an option.
#wisconsin