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Hey everyone,

We've started to hit the upper limit of what our current server is able to handle in terms of performance, and we've noticed its having a performance impact on the site itself.

For example, this is the CPU usage as I type this:

We're going to make the move to a much more powerful server, as we've done all we can on this one to control performance.

If all goes smoothly, I predict a couple of hours downtime while we migrate the database between servers and then move the surrounding services over.

The window is going to be 5 hours, so any posts made in this time will most likely be lost, especially if we have to roll back to the old server.

Once the update is done, Cloudflare should handle most of the DNS issues but you might need to hard refresh the site.

You can keep an eye on status.lemmy.zip for more information.

Please let me know if you have questions in the comments, but I will be doing a full breakdown in the next server update in a couple of days.

Thanks

Demigodrick

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[–] Demigodrick 5 points 7 months ago

Update:

  • Main site is back up - let me know of anything not working!
  • images should be working
  • site should be faster with any luck
  • work is still ongoing in the window around secondary services like the mobile site, please be aware that something could still go wrong.

Window is open until 18:00 UTC - until then we could still need to restore the site to an older version, any posts might go missing if that is the case.

I'll make a final post when we're done.