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[Done] Server will be migrated (More power!) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To add to this, you can use exclamation point "!" To link people to communities in a way that won't take them away from their home instance. Likewise you can use @ for users.

Example: [email protected] Or: @[email protected]

It even auto fills when you type

Edit: might be wrong about it linking universally.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This absolutely is not true today, they create links that are absolute and refer to the host of the community in question.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm working on a Firefox extension to add a link going to your home instance.

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

for a while it will result in a lot of seemingly dead links as small communities will appear as 404s until the remote instance has synced.

Or at least that's what i'm seeing occasionally when I try to copy/paste the communites onto my instances /c/ URL.

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

Making links agnostic is an open PR which will be implemented eventually.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

right I was just testing it and it auto fills with absolute path using "!". Using "@" I could only link local communities