Hey all!

As you may know, prices for server components are increasing across the board to astronomical prices. We currently host lit cafe on Hetzner, as do a lot of our peers. They recently announced significant price increases across the board for servers with components that they have already purchased… which leaves a bad taste in my mouth. On top of that, the prices are becoming unreasonable for simple VPS hosting situations at Hetzner. Because of that and some other reasons, we will be migrating lit cafe to a new provider. We are currently paying for a ccx23 for the main server and a ccx13 for the alternative frontends. We expect a 30% increase in our bill with these changes.

The new provider is https://nulled.llc/services/kuhaku a smaller provider located in the Midwest, USA. On top of the significant prices savings, we will be supporting a small business with homegrown artisan Midwestern cloud vibes. We appreciate the support we’ve received so far and expect similar performance with the ability to consolidate our server footprint back to a single VPS. We are expecting to begin the migration tomorrow ( Thursday, March 19th 3pm EDT) and hopefully will be done in a reasonable manner. Longest thing will be backing up and restoring the database of course.

Thank you for understanding!

TL;DR lit cafe is migrating, there will be scheduled downtime tomorrow to move.