From what I can find, the managing director of the company that runs serverspace.io (ITGLOBAL.COM NL), which is the company that rents me the VPS space, was arrested by Dutch authorities. The infrastructure in Amsterdam was disconnected without warning when this happened. Since my latest database backup is unfortunately not very recent, and because there is still hope that the severs will come back up, I am waiting and hoping that I regain access to the data. They originally published some somewhat optimistic message, but as of today their website is inaccessible.

https://www.comnews.ru/content/247454/2026-09-21/2026-w39/1007/globus-dlya-itglobal-umenshilsya

https://theins.ru/news/297340

I could not find any statements from Dutch police or really any source other than IT Global themselves. But, this event may be related to "Dmitry Gachko" (owner of ITGlobalcom Rus) being added to this sanctions list: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2024/1484/2026-07-13

I recieved no warning, and I did not know about the ownership structure of serverspace and did not consider that the infrastructure was exposed to this risk. I figured "VPS in Amsterdam from a Dutch company" was rather safe. But "Dutch company operating in NL" does not mean the same as Dutch owned...

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Out of curiosity, are there any updates on this from Sal? I'm not in that Matrix currently

[–] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I haven't seen anything, but I am not in any mander-specific rooms. The above is what Sal posted to #lemmy-support-general:discuss.online after somebody had asked about it.

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