K&T Host, a hosting provider for many Fediverse software including Lemmy has announced they're shutting down

https://streams.knthost.com/channel/knt

Services will shutdown on the following schedule.

October 30, 2025: Announcement of shutdown.
November 30, 2025: First reminder notice.
December 15, 2025: Second reminder notice. Future invoicing stops.
December 30, 2025: Third reminder notice.
January 15, 2026: Services disabled and final notice. Backups are still available.
February 1, 2026: Full system shutdown. All remaining data will be purged from the system.  
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rglullis@communick.news · 28 pts · 315d

Meanwhile, Google/Alphabet is announcing today record revenues of U$ 100 billion for the latest quarter alone...

The less the community support smaller, independent service providers, the more we will all be assimilated by the Borg.

jstin86457@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 315d

How many Fediverse instances will be affected by this? How easy will it be for them to migrate elsewhere?

Skavau@piefed.social · 16 pts · 315d (3 replies)

Who is specifically impacted by this?

CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in · 24 pts · 315d (1 reply)

me :D

my net is painfully slow so selfhosting is not a reliable option, and it's solely because of infrastructure of my apartment. I can't pay more to increase my net speed, so i went with a hosting provider.

rglullis@communick.news · 19 pts · 315d

Take a look at https://communick.com/lemmy, I don't have an automated way to import an existing instance but if you have a backup of your media and database we can work something out.

Dave@lemmy.nz · 11 pts · 315d

Looks like it's one of those sites that let you easily host an instance of various sites, one of which includes Lemmy.

I'm not sure who will be affected but if it's anyone, probably mostly single user instances.

Blaze@piefed.zip · 16 pts · 315d

Sorry to hear

_NetNomad@fedia.io · 6 pts · 315d

aw hell! K&T are great, that's a real shame

pewgar_ee@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 2 pts · 315d
JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 302d

They're among the very very few Hubzilla hosters. And I think they are the only (streams) hoster.