I dont have any info for you, but Mander was my primary instance since the day I joined lemmy. I reluctantly had to find a different one after it was down for so long. It's a shame.
This is what I currently see when I try to access the VPS:
Which translates to:
Data center failure: location resources unavailable
A few days ago, the server came "temporarily" down and this message appeared:
Since usually these issues resolve after a bit of time, I decided to just wait it out.
Yesterday the website (serverspace.io) stopped responding for a few hours, and so I decided to look into it deeper... They have not provided information to me directly nor via their website, and so I can only tell you what I have found so far:
Because I live in Amsterdam, I decided to make use of Serverspace.io renting server space in Amsterdam. Physically the servers reside at the "Amsterdam AM2" datacenter which belongs to Equinix. Equinix is a US-based company, and 'Serverspace.io' is run by the "Dutch" company ITGLOBAL.COM NL B.V.
However, the company ITGLOBAL.COM is Russian owned. The founder Dmitry Gachko was sanctioned on July of this year for his contribution to, and the director of the Dutch subsidiary has been allegedly imprisoned by Dutch authorities on September 15th. At this time Equinix allegedly shut off access to the infrastructure.
Here is a translated excerpt from one of the sources:
"The Russian IT corporation ITG announced its withdrawal from NATO countries following the arrest of the director of its Dutch subsidiary and the shutdown of equipment at its Amsterdam data center. ITG founder Dmitry Gachko declared the "basic rights" of Russian businesses in the West to be "trampled upon" and asserted that any director with Russian roots could now "automatically come under attack." Furthermore, even before the current incident, the Dutch subsidiary of ITGLOBAL.COM was involved in a lawsuit filed by the American company ServiceNow over alleged theft of software code. Gachko himself was sanctioned by the EU in July as the owner of a company that supplies technology for the Russian surveillance system SORM. "
Here are the sources from which this info comes from (in Russian):
I have not been able to find any official comments about this current situation from Equinix or Dutch authorities.
I am waiting for now. Without an official statement it is difficult to conclude whether this is directly a consequence of the sanctions on Gachko, if this is related to the ServiceNow lawsuit, or if there is some completely different reason and ITG is mis-characterizing the event.
thanks for the info. Perhaps you can post into one of those fediverse or meta communities.
PS. I really enjoyed the instance science_memes section. Did the mods migrate the community elsewhere? I'd be up for creating one under programming.dev if needed but I rather not do a takeover.
Oh, wow, that really sucks for everyone. I really appreciate you taking time to find all that out and letting me know. Really loved the mander instance. I will keep trying just in case. Since I have your attention I want to take this moment to thank you for all your hard work. We all really appreciate everything you guys have done.
8 Comments
1Malayali@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2d
Thank you for asking about this. I was wondering why !science_memes@mander.xyz was not having new posts for some days
mysterymeatbag@startrek.website · 9 pts · 2d
I dont have any info for you, but Mander was my primary instance since the day I joined lemmy. I reluctantly had to find a different one after it was down for so long. It's a shame.
GloomyDorje@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
Same :(
BurntBlueberry@literature.cafe · 4 pts · 2d
Thats my problem, this was my backup, but, mander was my primary. No notification, it just disappeared. : (
Mobiuthuselah@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1d
I've been wondering the same thing. It's been a week or more since I was able to access it.
Zalamander@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 13h
Hello! I administer mander.xyz
This is what I currently see when I try to access the VPS:
Which translates to: Data center failure: location resources unavailable
A few days ago, the server came "temporarily" down and this message appeared:
Since usually these issues resolve after a bit of time, I decided to just wait it out.
Yesterday the website (serverspace.io) stopped responding for a few hours, and so I decided to look into it deeper... They have not provided information to me directly nor via their website, and so I can only tell you what I have found so far:
Because I live in Amsterdam, I decided to make use of Serverspace.io renting server space in Amsterdam. Physically the servers reside at the "Amsterdam AM2" datacenter which belongs to Equinix. Equinix is a US-based company, and 'Serverspace.io' is run by the "Dutch" company ITGLOBAL.COM NL B.V.
However, the company ITGLOBAL.COM is Russian owned. The founder Dmitry Gachko was sanctioned on July of this year for his contribution to, and the director of the Dutch subsidiary has been allegedly imprisoned by Dutch authorities on September 15th. At this time Equinix allegedly shut off access to the infrastructure.
Here is a translated excerpt from one of the sources:
"The Russian IT corporation ITG announced its withdrawal from NATO countries following the arrest of the director of its Dutch subsidiary and the shutdown of equipment at its Amsterdam data center. ITG founder Dmitry Gachko declared the "basic rights" of Russian businesses in the West to be "trampled upon" and asserted that any director with Russian roots could now "automatically come under attack." Furthermore, even before the current incident, the Dutch subsidiary of ITGLOBAL.COM was involved in a lawsuit filed by the American company ServiceNow over alleged theft of software code. Gachko himself was sanctioned by the EU in July as the owner of a company that supplies technology for the Russian surveillance system SORM. "
Here are the sources from which this info comes from (in Russian):
https://theins.ru/news/297340
https://www.comnews.ru/content/247454/2026-09-21/2026-w39/1007/globus-dlya-itglobal-umenshilsya
And here is the Russian sanctions list to which Dmitry was added this July (person 89): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2024/1484/2026-07-13
I have not been able to find any official comments about this current situation from Equinix or Dutch authorities.
I am waiting for now. Without an official statement it is difficult to conclude whether this is directly a consequence of the sanctions on Gachko, if this is related to the ServiceNow lawsuit, or if there is some completely different reason and ITG is mis-characterizing the event.
anzo@programming.dev · 1 pts · 12h
thanks for the info. Perhaps you can post into one of those fediverse or meta communities.
PS. I really enjoyed the instance science_memes section. Did the mods migrate the community elsewhere? I'd be up for creating one under programming.dev if needed but I rather not do a takeover.
BurntBlueberry@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 6h
Oh, wow, that really sucks for everyone. I really appreciate you taking time to find all that out and letting me know. Really loved the mander instance. I will keep trying just in case. Since I have your attention I want to take this moment to thank you for all your hard work. We all really appreciate everything you guys have done.