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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] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't understand why a dedicated server is a good idea, when the only true way to scale is to use like Kubernetes or Docker and ECS Containers with scale?

Your just gonna run into more problems, you cannot vertically scale forever.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Awesome to see so much growth. I just joined yesterday and I guess I'm not alone!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Does it work on water now that it has MORE POWA?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you. Feels super responsive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Came here from Reddit and I already love it so much more! :)

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

Thanks for all the work you put in @[email protected]

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

Thank you for keeping up! You deserve the growth and activity.

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

Is one donation method preferred over another? That is to say, is one cheaper than the other?

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

Hey @Ruud! Love what you're doing with the instance. Do we know when the downtime will occur?

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