LJ Servers moving to Russia - confirmed.

[tripleransom]

Well, I guess a lot of you have heard about this by now, but if you haven't, looks as if LJ servers, which had been located in CA are now located in Russia. Speculation is that the Russian company which owns LJ may decide to shut down the English operation. If you have a Dreamwidth account, better start mirroring your content over there. I do

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[jcporter1]

Thanks for the heads up. Dreamwidth you say? Sounds like a plan.

[autumnatmidnite]

I'm planning on backing up my LJ either way, but the more I read on about the situation, the less it sounds like this is going to be the ultimate death blow. It very well could be, so I'm taking precautions, but hoping for the best, all the same. It really would be a pity to lose all the old archives on here...

[mazaher]

I keep a strict policy of backing up stuff, and LJ is only a shadow of its former self anyway, so in case of a shutdown I will transfer on my tumblr account the posts with the links to my stuff on my personal website at www.mazaher.org.
Free hosting is all right until it's not all right anymore, but on a paid (even a really cheap) account one can feel safer.