Here's a few things that are happening that I feel should be addressed:
-196 is reopening in reddit
-our community is causing excessive load on the blahaj.zone servers
-i finally figured out how to add newlines in Lemmy markdown
Two of these things are more important than the third but I figured they should all be addressed.
First things first, the subreddit. Even though the og subreddit is reopening now, I do not plan to close the community. At this point 196 on Lemmy and 196 on Reddit are both separate yet similar communities and this lemmy community has a sizable enough user base and is active enough I feel closing it would be stupid.
Speaking of a sizable user base, the blahaj.zone servers are under excessive load which has been causing the admins to incur fees upwards of $3,000 a month. This is in no small part due to 196 being the fourth largest community on Lemmy.
I'm not sure what the future solution of this will be. It seems like they're going to switch to a cheaper service provider which will also cause the entire website to be slower, at a lower cost.
For this reason, I think that a future migration to a different Lemmy server may be in order. I will be reaching out to major admins of other communities as well as our own ada to see if the pre-existing community can be transferred, or if we'll have to start from scratch if we choose to move. This is very much a developing situation, and I will keep you all posted.
Finally, as you can see. I finally figured out how to add newlines to plaintext meaning that all of my future postings will be much more professional looking. Check out our new and improved rules and regulations pinned post to see just how much of a difference it makes.
You guys are the community, so I'd like to see what you think. Please discuss in the comments section of this post, and I will try to base my actions off of whatever you all conclude on.
Also please point out any typos I may have made I voice typed this on my phone
They’re paying for Amazon web services instead of using more professional hosting alternatives, and things are nowhere near as optimized as lemmy.world. also I’m pretty sure that ruud has dedicated hardware for lemmy.world, whereas this is being done entirely off the cloud. in addition to all of that, they're hosting a mastodon instance on the same website and the costs are for both
This was a throw away instance of two or three people before the Reddit wave. We were not planning on growing from three users to six thousand :)
Y'all are champs for suddenly taking on thousands of users at your own expense on what was meant to be a throwaway instance. It went from a small private server to hosting one of the most active communities on Lemmy in a short time, and you and your team of volunteer tech sorceresses have been doing the best you can to keep lemmy.blahaj.zone alive as it grows
I'm running my Lemmy instance in AWS as well for just a few people and trying to keep costs low. I can definitely imagine it's rough trying to scale up and control costs.
are you planning on shifting to other vps providers?
We have already begun moving, and this announcement was to warn our users about future downtime as we migrate more critical services like databases etc.
The cloud do be expensive
ya know, it's not hard to setup a totally independent instance on the same hypervisor as another.
I have servers, you have people, we could make independent lemmy instances on my two Dell R720xd and one Dell R730xd servers. They're not overloaded with people like lemmy.world yet, that would put way way more stress on that server.