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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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I’m glad to hear about the new users (I myself am one.) and the server upgrades!

I think lemmy.world suits me better than Beehaw. (great folks over there, no shade)

I like that lemmy.world let’s communities be openly created by users, as well as the inclusion of downvoting which I personally prefer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

More power! More power is good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That's my admin!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I’m just another reddit refugee but I wanted to say thank you for your time, effort and money. As I slowly come to terms with federation I see why some are so passionate about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you for doing that! We appreciate having a place to come.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Does it work on water now that it has MORE POWA?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

What kind of server configuration are you guys running? A single instance?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thank you. Feels super responsive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I'm not too familiar with Lemmy's codebase, but I am a devops engineer. Is the software written in any way to support horizontal scaling? If so, I'd be happy to consult/help to get the instance onto an autoscaling platform eventually.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Came here from Reddit and I already love it so much more! :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the awesome work!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thankyou for everything!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just curious, what sort of hardware is lemmy.world using/moving to? Wondering if there's a good way to predict load based on number of users.

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