I wanted to go over an initiative that I have been working on since the fall of 2024. Recent events have forced me to prioritize some of these tasks, as I really want to complete these tasks sooner rather than later. I am attempting to migrate as many of my online services as possible away from services based in the US. This is not an easy task which will require certain concessions on some things, and I am prepared to deal with that. It is impossible to avoid US services, but I will try my best to avoid them for critical services.

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There were several tasks that needed to be completed to successfully migrate away from Microsoft 365. I decided that I would test different solutions and make changes as needed, but the move away from Microsoft 365 would be a one-way trip. I had no intention of going back to that platform, and I was going to make whatever solution I ended up with work for me. At the end of this migration, I was able to have a proper email and groupware solution that did everything I needed it to do, and it was on a non-US provider.

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I wasn’t planning on making this change right now, but recent events have accelerated my schedule. I am retiring the mjcb.io domain and moving everything to the mjcb.ca domain for all of my online services. I wanted to make this change sooner rather than later, as it will take time for those changes to be propagated. Fortunately, I am not too concerned with a lot of the issues that arise from changing domains.

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