The migration is done. From a short amount of testing, everything appears to work again.

What happened

A couple of hours of downtime.

What was done

Moving everything from the VPS to my own hardware (Raspberry Pi 5).

What has changed

Pros:

• Less reliance on external services ("the cloud")
• More storage
• More CPU performance
• As a result, more game servers and other things in the future

Cons:

• No proper IPv6
• Some waiting for IPv6 availability as Hurricane Electric's web service is currently broken
• Might not immediately be a perfect transition for existing services
• Higher possibility of bandwidth going adios
• Some difficulties related to moving from AMD64 to ARM64
• More responsibility to ensure high availability

How uptime is effected

No static IPv4 address is provided. The ISP re-assigns addresses from their many ranges every day, at a random point in time.

Due to the circumstances, and how I took care of the issue, there will be daily downtimes at an unknown part of the day, ranging from 1 minute to 10 minutes.

The downtimes could take longer, either because the ISP is down, the DNS I use is unresponsive, the automatic updates I set up failed, DNS caching on your DNS or your own end is set up incorrectly, or any combination of the above.

Final words

I hope this was not excessively disruptive (everything was offline for about 3 hours...), but it has been planned for many months. I may regret it, crawl my way back to using a VPS, and use my Pi exclusively for game servers. Only time will tell.

I never asked for donations, and I don't really have means of receiving them. While I still don't expect to be rewarded for my hobby, I nonetheless greatly appreciate any kind of verbal support, or help along the way.