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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] 5 points 1 year ago

thanks for everything you're doing man

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not sure if you know yet, but I was curious when this would happen and what it looks like when the server is down. Will we have a server maintenance message pop up when we try to go to lemmy.world or will some stuff show up but just nothing works until the move is finished?

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's my admin!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Just joined. Thank you so much for your effort!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for being so on top of all these changes! I’m enjoying my experience here so far.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Contributed to the OpenCollective link. Thanks for the efforts @Ruud and team!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Incredible. Thank you for your efforts on this!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you again for your efforts! Making a donation right now to help with the costs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That was fast! Great job! :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The site is way more performant following the migration!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Loving it here so far!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Like everyone else here, I'm a reddit refugee but I'm quite excited for this instance

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Are you running this out of your home?

I have self hosted small things before, but I was always curious about lager stuff like this.

What are your internet speeds?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Damn, those server specs are crazy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
  1. I signed up on Patreon. Thank you for hosting + making it possible. I thought about adding an emoji check mark next to my name but gave up the idea. :-)
  2. I made up a little proposal on how I think load on the instances could be more effectively distributed. The problem of load on the instance servers + the cost of hosting as a result isn't going to get better with time. πŸ™‚ If you have any feedback or interest, feel free to LMK, and thanks again.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Feels good to be part of the growth of a community!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Unlimited POWAAAAAH!

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