The war started in 2022, and so this means that they were trading with Russia for 3 years straight with no consequences until July 18, 2025, unless I am missing something. Like, why didn’t they get sanctioned in 2022 but only after 3 years?
Why were they able to stay under the radar for 3 years?
Regarding this “news” site as it’s the first time I am seeing this (the .su domain is for Soviet Union by the way):
Ownership information is not transparent; however, according to the NEO about page, its address is “12, Rozhdestvenka Street, office 111, Moscow.” The exact address is also used by “The Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.” Typically, the Putin government gives the Research Institutes’ control to the Ministry of Education; therefore, the Russian government funds and owns this journal through the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Straight from Windows to Hyperland? That’s wild!
Hey, on the cost part, I’ve noticed that you’ve spent quite some money on the domain, I assume with some Czech provider (since the transaction amount is in CZK). What I can suggest you is comparing the prices with different providers as 40€ seems to be a lot for a .world domain. I can recommend this website for comparing different providers: https://tld-list.com/tld/world
Also, not sure what you use for hosting, but DeluxHost has some good VPS offers if you require no more than 5 TB/month in bandwidth (I have no clue what Lemmy hosting uses). Example: €15/year (not month) (full list) for 2 vCPUs, 8GB RAM, 80GB SSDs, 1xIPv4 + 1x /64 IPv6 and 10Gbit speed, hosted in the Netherlands. I host myself another service with them, so I can share benchmarks or whatever you need (and vouch that the uptime is perfect so far, except for the scheduled maintenances), if interested, but if you go this route - just want to note that do have a good backup system in place in case they go down one day, as it often happens with smaller providers.
Works fine on my side. If I am not mistaken, the bot protection does not affect API that Voyager uses (correct me if I’m wrong though)
Can’t they really use EU technologies instead?
I’ve made a choice a while ago while deploying Nextcloud. Now I don’t care, as I trust myself that I have opted for something reasonable which was hopefully not SQLite