So after we’ve extended the virtual cloud server twice, we’re at the max for the current configuration. And with this crazy growth (almost 12k users!!) even now the server is more and more reaching capacity.

Therefore I decided to order a dedicated server. Same one as used for mastodon.world.

So the bad news… we will need some downtime. Hopefully, not too much. I will prepare the new server, copy (rsync) stuff over, stop Lemmy, do last rsync and change the DNS. If all goes well it would take maybe 10 minutes downtime, 30 at most. (With mastodon.world it took 20 minutes, mainly because of a typo :-) )

For those who would like to donate, to cover server costs, you can do so at our OpenCollective or Patreon

Thanks!

Update The server was migrated. It took around 4 minutes downtime. For those who asked, it now uses a dedicated server with a AMD EPYC 7502P 32 Cores “Rome” CPU and 128GB RAM. Should be enough for now.

I will be tuning the database a bit, so that should give some extra seconds of downtime, but just refresh and it’s back. After that I’ll investigate further to the cause of the slow posting. Thanks @[email protected] for assisting with that.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 years ago

    Like many others, I came from Reddit and was initially hesitant to try it out, but I love this place so much! It really feels like the “worse” parts of Reddit have been skimmed off, and that definitely shows with how nice people seem here! Thank you so much!

    • @[email protected]English
      3•2 years ago

      Truth is for me as someone who used Reddit for about the last 16 years, it very much feels like the early days of Reddit again.

      Which is a very good thing, because that’s what I originally signed up for compared to a metric fuckton of karma farming spam bots.

      I just hope it gains enough traction to be sustainable in the long run, especially considering that it’s relying on donations for funding, I believe?

      • @[email protected]English
        1•2 years ago

        undefined> metric fuckton of karma farming spam bots.

        People are hard at work writing bots for lemmy so don’t worry, you’ll be able to enjoy your regular hogwash again really soon.

        Personally I think lemmy should go as far out of its way as possible to make bots in any and all forms just about impossible.

        • ChrisostomeStripEnglish
          2•2 years ago

          Yeah, we can enjoy while it lasts, because with more users more questionable content will come

    • BOMBSEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      how nice people seem here

      yes! I love the culture of this place so far

    • MaiznieksEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Found one russian troll already. Oh well…

      Edit: lol, was not referring to OP, it was some world news post comment with chiese username that spread misinformation about russian war in ukraine. I just added my thoughts on the community.

      • Drew Got No ClueEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        Lesson learned today: never take anything for granted—if there’s a chance to be massively misunderstood, it will eventually happen lol

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 years ago

          I think they meant they’ve seen one Russian troll on Lemmy already, not that skidface is a Russian troll.

          I … Have to assume so, anyway

      • BOMBSEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        you can easily block any user by click on the 🚫 sign under their comment, and never have to deal with their bs again

  • Mike D.English
    1•2 years ago

    I would prefer if lemmy.world and mastodon.world donations were NOT comingled.

    I want to donate to lemmy.world but already contribute to my mastodon instance (sfba.social) as well as the mastodon project.

  • @[email protected]English
    0•2 years ago

    Would be awesome if you create some group chat (e.g. Discord?) and add sysadmins/devops to it. Would be more than happy to assist, especially if you have questions or need opinions.

    I’ve been working as sre/sysadmin/devops for the past ~5 years and ~9 years of (Arch) Linux user. More than 1K Arch Wiki edits over that period of time.

  • MangoEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    I don’t understand why a dedicated server is a good idea, when the only true way to scale is to use like Kubernetes or Docker and ECS Containers with scale?

    Your just gonna run into more problems, you cannot vertically scale forever.

  • ClutchEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    Is one donation method preferred over another? That is to say, is one cheaper than the other?

  • SomeologyEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    Thanks for you work on this! What is the planned time for the outage?