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Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed. (infosec.pub)
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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Assuming slrpnk stands for solar punk - that produces funny little theories in my mind about the server location.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Their servers are located in Portugal I believe and do indeed run on solar power! They gave details of their set up on their wiki page but... that was on the server that's gone down so... have a read in July I guess?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 2 months ago

it's on archive.org

https://web.archive.org/web/20240223204706/https://wiki.f-hub.org/books/slrpnknet/page/server-hosting

Server hosting

This is a work in progress
Slrpnk.net is hosted by F-hub.org, a volunteer driven and non-commercial effort to host federated community services in a resource efficient and ethical way. F-hub.org grew out of a community of open-source game developers (freegamedev.net) that has existed since the early 2000s.

All the servers are operated and maintained (as a hobby) by one of the founding members and are currently located on the Azores in Portugal. Connectivity is provided through a dedicated high-speed fibreglass connection.
Hardware

The F-hub.org servers are based on second-hand consumer PC and data-centre hardware, but optimized for low energy consumption. Battery backup power is provided and data is stored with triple redundancy (off-site backups are still a work in progress). Electricity is currently provided by the utility grid (about 60% green-energy, mostly from a geothermal power-plant) but it is a work in progress to upgrade to a on-site solar PV system for near 100% renewable power.

Slrpnk.net itself currently runs on a dedicated 6th gen Intel CPU server with 8 threads, 16GB RAM and SATA SSD storage in raid configuration. Image uploads are stored on a large HDD raid array. All data is snapshotted and transferred for backup to a second shared server on daily basis.
External services

Given how difficult it is to have outgoing email accepted by the large email providers, all emails are currently routed through an external SMTP server hosted by OVH in France (same as the domain registration and DNS routing).

There are backup plans to move the servers to a co-location data-center owned by Altice, should this be required for scaling. However, monthly rent of rack-space is quite costly (starts at around 300€/month), thus this will require a substantial regular donation base to be possible.
[–] technohippie@piefed.social 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think they're located in the Azores, and yes, running their own servers on solar (of course) and other renewable energy. Coolest instance out there.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope they come back :)

[–] PirateFrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 months ago

We will, promise! :D

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lol in my head it stands for slurp nick

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's clearly "slurp nook," that nook where you can go to slurp soup as loudly as you want without being judged.

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Makes most sense

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I’m glad I’m not the only one lol