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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] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If you didn't tell I wouldn't even have noticed, awesome work!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Are you running this out of your home?

I have self hosted small things before, but I was always curious about lager stuff like this.

What are your internet speeds?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's my admin!

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

What happens to accounts/history created here if the server shuts down?

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

Currently, everything disapears, other fediverse projects have export/backup functionality, so i'd expect that to come to lemmy before too long

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

afaik everything disappears, but if it's synced with another instance maybe that content keep existing there? The accounts disappears for sure.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The site is way more performant following the migration!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Contributed to the OpenCollective link. Thanks for the efforts @Ruud and team!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Loving it here so far!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

thanks for everything you're doing man

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Incredible. Thank you for your efforts on this!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

How to contribute? Do you have Patreon?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for all you do @[email protected]. You’re doing great!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m glad to hear about the new users (I myself am one.) and the server upgrades!

I think lemmy.world suits me better than Beehaw. (great folks over there, no shade)

I like that lemmy.world let’s communities be openly created by users, as well as the inclusion of downvoting which I personally prefer.

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

Just joined. Thank you so much for your effort!

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

Thank you for doing that! We appreciate having a place to come.

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

Thanks for the work you put into this server!

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

Ooooh

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