As sent out in email December 6th and posted on MuSoapBox:

[...], it's become apparent that Mechanipus is much less an essential component of the MUSHing community than it was; there are a multitude of low-cost hosting services and VM providers that are a much better fit for most users.

As a result, Mechanipus will be closing.

Mushes will be permanently halted and web services suspended on 15 January 2018. Two weeks later, at the end of January, I will be doing the final removal of accounts, data, and likely decommissioning Kuramori itself.