Here's a few things that are happening that I feel should be addressed:
-196 is reopening in reddit
-our community is causing excessive load on the blahaj.zone servers
-i finally figured out how to add newlines in Lemmy markdown
Two of these things are more important than the third but I figured they should all be addressed.
First things first, the subreddit. Even though the og subreddit is reopening now, I do not plan to close the community. At this point 196 on Lemmy and 196 on Reddit are both separate yet similar communities and this lemmy community has a sizable enough user base and is active enough I feel closing it would be stupid.
Speaking of a sizable user base, the blahaj.zone servers are under excessive load which has been causing the admins to incur fees upwards of $3,000 a month. This is in no small part due to 196 being the fourth largest community on Lemmy.
I'm not sure what the future solution of this will be. It seems like they're going to switch to a cheaper service provider which will also cause the entire website to be slower, at a lower cost.
For this reason, I think that a future migration to a different Lemmy server may be in order. I will be reaching out to major admins of other communities as well as our own ada to see if the pre-existing community can be transferred, or if we'll have to start from scratch if we choose to move. This is very much a developing situation, and I will keep you all posted.
Finally, as you can see. I finally figured out how to add newlines to plaintext meaning that all of my future postings will be much more professional looking. Check out our new and improved rules and regulations pinned post to see just how much of a difference it makes.
You guys are the community, so I'd like to see what you think. Please discuss in the comments section of this post, and I will try to base my actions off of whatever you all conclude on.
Also please point out any typos I may have made I voice typed this on my phone
Wow, I had no clue blahaj.zone was running on AWS that's definitely a way to run a cloud server if money is no issue. AWS is okay for small projects but as you scale up the prices start to hurt.
However maybe a traditional dedicated server from a service like dedicated.com would work just as well or better, I've had some great luck with affordable dedicated servers from them in the past.
It's running on AWS because it was a throw away server for a few people before it exploded to over 6000 people. We did not design our initial setup with overnight expansion in mind :)
That's definitely understandable. I just hope you fine folks don't have to keep footing an enormous cloud provider fee for much longer.
That really is a lot of $$$, just think of how many Blahaj you could have bought with that instead.
But seriously though, even though I'm not a direct user of your instance I greatly appreciate the work and money everyone is putting into the blahaj.zone instance, I love 196.
Nope, it won't be much longer. We're getting away from AWS very soon, and the downtime that will cause is what our state of the instance post was about :)