I found the admin's most recent comments and found this thread
It was a mistaken post removal and they've been busy. It's possible that @Sal@mander.xyz has not noticed the instance is down yet.
I have been neglecting the instance very aggressively due to being busy this summer.
And on the subject of getting more admins/moderators:
Yes, of course! Moderators are gold. I need to make a better effort at recruiting.
If there’s no news in the next week or two, I’m gonna be looking to spin up a successor based on the same principles. Mander.xyz is my favorite part of the fediverse by a mile, and the spirit is worth keeping alive.
If anyone reading this has sysadmin experience and is willing to help out, I’d love to make it a joint project; feel free to shoot me a DM.
They've been down for 2 days now, I had an account there and I was wondering what happened, but aside from this post, I couldn't find anything. I hope they get back online.
From Sal on matrix:
From what I can find, the managing director of the company that runs serverspace.io (ITGLOBAL.COM NL), which is the company that rents me the VPS space, was arrested by Dutch authorities. The infrastructure in Amsterdam was disconnected without warning when this happened. Since my latest database backup is unfortunately not very recent, and because there is still hope that the severs will come back up, I am waiting and hoping that I regain access to the data. They originally published some somewhat optimistic message, but as of today their website is inaccessible.
https://www.comnews.ru/content/247454/2026-09-21/2026-w39/1007/globus-dlya-itglobal-umenshilsya
I could not find any statements from Dutch police or really any source other than IT Global themselves. But, this event may be related to "Dmitry Gachko" (owner of ITGlobalcom Rus) being added to this sanctions list: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2024/1484/2026-07-13
I recieved no warning, and I did not know about the ownership structure of serverspace and did not consider that the infrastructure was exposed to this risk. I figured "VPS in Amsterdam from a Dutch company" was rather safe. But "Dutch company operating in NL" does not mean the same as Dutch owned...
I hope not, I was going to make another post to !ecospheres@mander.xyz soon
Here's a recent post from mander https://retrolemmy.com/post/43323195 so they must've just went down recently, maybe it's temporary
Still down :/
Still down, and the fossilesque account that was one of the most prolific posters appears to be deleted.
Nothing yet 😔
I hope they bring it back, I really miss it.
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