That's cool. Does it have the ability to post notifications, like an explanation of why there's downtime or ETA for restoration?

I've been saying this for a long time.

There are use cases for the cloud. I put e-mail in the cloud- ain't nobody got time to deal with providing reliable SMTP or Exchange while keeping spam out. If you have a web app that needs to scale quickly, cloud's the way. If you're a startup with limited capital and you don't want to blow it on a bunch of servers when you're not sure if you'll survive more than a year or so, cloud's the way.

But Cloud ISN'T the end-all answer for everything.

If you have a predictable workload, especially one that relies on more expensive cloud services, de-clouding can save you a bundle. Buying hardware can be cheaper than renting it, if only because (think about it) the cloud provider has to buy the same hardware and rent it to you AND make a profit. If you're going to be around a while, and you expect to use a piece of hardware for its full service life, that makes a lot of sense.

First- thank you for your work keeping this instance operable. I know it's not easy. Just want to say it's appreciated.

As for my comment- I think you misunderstand.
I'm talking SOLELY a status update system for FMHY Lemmy and perhaps FMHY website too. The equivalent of very.bignutty.xyz. There would be no piracy on it or even links to piracy. You could run THAT on Twitter. Even The Pirate Bay has a Twitter account and they don't get banned or blocked.
Think about it- of everything you guys post on very.bignutty.xyz, how much of it would get you banned from Twitter, Facebook, or any other anti-piracy centralized service? I haven't seen a single thing. It's all just downtime updates.

So I'd say find a Mastodon instance that seems like they'd go for it, reach out to the admins and say we want to use you guys for our downtime tracker account, we promise no links to any pirated material only our own website and not deep links to specific piracy items. If they give you the go ahead, you're good to go.

That said, interactivity is a plus but not a requirement. I like your idea of a status page hosted on github.
The important thing to me is that it NOT be on FMHY infrastructure, so it can still work if FMHY infrastructure has problems.

I'm in the same boat as OP- I'd never even heard of FMHY before Lemmy, and of the options presented I agreed with the values of FMHY more than the alternatives. So FMHY is also my portal to the Fediverse.

I agree with this 100%, but I'd add one key detail-

Please add another communication channel that is not hosted by the FMHY team or on any of the same systems.

The system at https://very.bignutty.xyz has not proven reliable and quite frankly while it's very cool, during the big .ml domain outage, I found it hard to find the most up to date information. I had to find a few accounts that appear to be on the FMHY team there and bookmark them. It's a heavyweight system, you need something very lightweight. And this system seems to have as much downtime as FMHY's Lemmy instance, which is less than ideal for an outage notification system.

I'd strongly suggest something like Mastodon. One account, where all updates go. Pick someone else's instance and make an account and use that.

Elon Musk. Without him, electric cars wouldn't be the almost-mainstream thing they are today. We also would be a decade behind on space launch.

Yes exactly. And that's why I don't jump to the assumption that Zelenskyy himself is corrupt or he is covering for the corruption of others.
A dude that would tolerate corruption doesn't say 'I need ammunition not a ride'. He could have bailed at any point, still could. But he shows no signs of losing resolve.
If Zelenskyy is trying to keep inner circle corruption private to avoid public spectacle, I suspect that whoever is found guilty will probably end up wishing they were arrested publicly rather than dealing with the security service.

Interesting.

Ukraine is known for thorough corruption at many levels of government. Zelenskyy first got elected for that reason- he was originally an actor who starred in a movie about a politician who decided to end corruption. He then ran for office on that platform and won. But when the system is thoroughly corrupt through and through, fixing it is not an overnight process.

My initial thought is perhaps this anti-corruption unit is itself corrupt, so it's making up an excuse to justify its own existence.

As for high profile corruption being swept under the rug- what I know of Zelenskyy suggests he would be less likely to turn a blind eye to that. I could of course be wrong though. And I suspect if he brings a high profile treason corruption case against a few well known people and has them jailed or shot for treason, that will send a very strong message to the rest that this isn't tolerated anymore.
That will of course put a target on Zelenskyy's back, but that's always been the case (especially since Russia invaded).