In my last blog post, I announced that Telodendria would be migrating all infrastructure from telodendria.io to telodendria.org due to the cost and uncertainty surrounding .io domains. There is a lot of information available online about why .io domains are a risky proposition these days, particularly for a small organization like Telodendria. Additionally, .io domains have become prohibitively expensive to renew. It just doesn't make sense for an open source project with very little funding to be spending so much money on a domain. The new .org is a lot cheaper, so it's a much better use of our limited resources.
In hindsight, we should have chosen a TLD that isn't a ccTLD from the beginning, but I am pleased to report that the migration has been successful and fairly painless. telodendria.io till exists and will continue to redirect to telodendria.org for the foreseeable future, but links and bookmarks should be updated before it eventually does go away probably around this time next year. The following services have been migrated:
telodendria.io → telodendria.orggit.telodendria.io → git.telodendria.orgsynapse.telodendria.io → synapse.telodendria.orgThe new canonical address for our Matrix room is #general:synapse.telodendria.org. If you're interested in Telodendria but haven't joined the discussion there, we'd love to invite you to join.
I also took the time to update everything to the latest software. We're now running Grav 1.48 for the website, Forgejo 12.0.0 for our Git forge, and Synapse 1.134.0 for the Matrix server. All Telodendria services are powered by Alpine 3.22.1 and hosted on an ARM Oracle Linux server in Oracle Cloud. Say what you will about Oracle, but they offer a free tier for cloud hosting with plenty of compute for a project like Telodendria, and so far it has been very reliable for us.
Now that all of our infrastructure has been migrated and brought up to date, I am looking forward to diving back in to developing Telodendria. Stay tuned for more news as I bring much-needed updates to Telodendria's core libraries and then to Telodendria itself.