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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] 10 points 1 year ago

Just donated $10! Appreciate all the work you all are doing to keep up with the growth.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Thanks for accommodating us!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

When I saw you were an admin of a large mastodon server, I knew this Lemmy instance was in good hands. Well done!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

So my Patreon subscription has paid off already! 😁

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I’m just another reddit refugee but I wanted to say thank you for your time, effort and money. As I slowly come to terms with federation I see why some are so passionate about it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, Ruud, I've chipped in re costs :) Keep up the good work.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Cool, lemmy.world seems to be one of the busiest with lots of new users, we should be making it clear to new users that they can sign up with ANY lemmy instance and still access lemmy.world communities though. gotta keep the load spread out.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

12k ??? That's crazy! It was only 500 when I joined 6 days ago, wow!

No worries for the downtime, when it's needed, it's needed :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

probably mostly due to the reddit situation. at least thats why im here now

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

May Reddit crash and burn. I'm part of the reddit exodus and the look of Lemmy is close to what I used to get in RedditIsFun (RiF). Going to take some getting used to but so far so good.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@[email protected] DM me if you need help setting up monitoring/alerting on server health. IRL I'm on an SRE team, so happy to help where I can!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

More power! More power is good.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

as one of the new people here, awesome!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the awesome work!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I don't know what most of that means but you guys (and/or gals!) fuckin rule and I appreciate the absolute hell out of you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ruud is rad!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Always give a long estimate so people are pleasantly surprised :)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I hope more third party apps are made in the future for iOS

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's Perfect Now. Thank u @Ruud You must be hero. πŸ¦ΈπŸ¦ΈπŸΏπŸ¦ΈπŸΎβ€β™€οΈ

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That's awesome! Wasn't even a long downtime

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