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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] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 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] 2 points 1 year ago

My take on this is that we have to remember how much this massive influx of users has been the last few days. Significantly more than its entire history. There is also the learning curve of new users. I think as people start getting a handle on how the fediverse works this will be less of an issue. Overtime this should work itself out. My two cents anyway. BTW also just subbed to c/Gameboy ;)

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

Well, when I search for a community, the results span servers, so I can find and join wherever. It is possible the search feature only includes servers previously referenced, I don't know.

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

If no one has joined that community before you need to search it with the format !community@instance

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

So how to we solve this? Create a user on .ml and subscribe to the .world community? Or is it enough to just search it up once to it "sees" the other community?

I can't seem to get [email protected] to work from lemmy.ml either so 🤷🏻‍♂️

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

I tried to look for norge on lemmy.ml and it’s not showing up for me either

Maybe it hasn’t synced yet? I don’t know, try later I guess 🫤

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

You only need one account on one instance (except if you’re trying to access something that’s blocked).

Just to confirm, you’re putting that in the search bar? Make sure to wait a few seconds; it might say “no results” at first before it finds it.

Once a person does that and joins, everyone else on lemmy.ml should be able to find mycommunity

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

I tried looking up this community as well from a couple of different instances and it's not showing up.

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

Looking up lemmyworld works for me, but norge doesn’t. I have no idea then. Maybe the servers are overloaded now.

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

undefined> norge

was there a solution to norge? I'm trying to subscribe to it from SDF but I can't find it

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

also everything is so damn slow right now, it's taking me 5 minutes to reply to you

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

Hace you tried with the full url? https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyworld that have worked for me every time. But sometimes is it a bit slower

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

That's not working either it seems.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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 1 year 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.