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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] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for everything you're doing. I signed up for Patreon to contribute!

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

@[email protected], I just want it to be known that you rock. Fucking thank you for all the hard work!

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

Thank you very much! πŸ₯³

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

When I saw you were an admin of a large mastodon server, I knew this Lemmy instance was in good hands. Well done!

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

Thanks for all you do @[email protected]. You’re doing great!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Lemmy.world is fantastic, thanks for your efforts. It fit perfectly with all the criteria I had when choosing where to host my account.

That being said, I wish Lemmy.ml, the "main" Lemmy instance, more often registered communities created here. At the moment, most people just search for communities there and many of our own don't show up because no user from that instance interacted with our new and growing communities just yet - not only does this create a fragmentation issue, but given the massive load spike, Lemmy.ml is actually running a bit slow whereas Lemmy.world is handling posts better, making interaction easier specially when migrating users from Reddit or other places. For instance, my GameBoy community is ready, with users, and I'm about to post some good content - but as far as someone from Lemmy.ml is concerned, no such community exists.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't even see any posts from .ml most of the time when I browse for all communities either. They feel bit separate, don't they?

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

lemmy.ml is having massive infra issues because it was one of the more linked-to instances in the past. I think it'll probably start easing up now that other instances are soaking users up.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

What's the operating cost? Thank you, for running this server! :)

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

do you plan to publish any of your scaling data? Some others might consider helping by running large instances and your learnings would be incredibly helpful.

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

Always give a long estimate so people are pleasantly surprised :)

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

Itd be cool to get donation flare!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

You can! β˜‘οΈ or βœ…. The Patreon page mentioned that you're officially allowed to edit your username to add flair when you donate. I upgraded to $8/month specifically so I could add the flair, but then got cold feet about the idea. πŸ˜€

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

Just joined. Thank you so much for your effort!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

All hail ruud ~~/u/ruud~~ (does that work?) Oh I have to make an actual link?

Oh and fuck spez.

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

Guess not. Anyone know how to tag users?

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

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

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

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.

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