Well, it looks like we're back - some time between 1130 and 1730 on wednesday, my server shit the bed and either deprecated or deleted Ruby, Rails, and nvm, to name but a few, rendering this instance completely un-usable - a 502 error was less than helpful, but luckily my YuNoHost install gave me some basic details I could use as a clue to trouble-shooting.
Unfortunately, these got me part of the way there, but there was still something missing - so I decided to re-install from a backup.
Which was easier said than done, it took some time to realise that I needed to completely remove Mastodon instead of installing the backup over the top.
In between, I was running some experiments with other Fedified apps, just in case I couldn't get this back up.
But I'm back now (I think!), and hoping to not have to suffer withdrawal any more.
It's funny that I kept wanting to come on here to ask for hints to fix the whole thing, but couldn't for what should be obvious reasons!
#SelfHosting #Fediverse #ImBack









