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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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 @veroxii@lemmy.world for assisting with that.

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[-] Speckle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Thank you for making this happen! Just signed up for a regular donation to help with costs πŸ‘

[-] fudrummer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

@ruud@lemmy.world 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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[-] Clipboards@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Thanks Ruud!

[-] MysticSmear@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

as one of the new people here, awesome!

[-] WhereGondor@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Thanks for accommodating us!

[-] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago

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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[-] delaghetto@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

So, I just want to make sure I understand this as I am a new user from reddit. Instances are server based and cost money. Instances are Lemmy.World, Beebaw, Lemmy.Film, etc etc. These are all seperate hosted instances. Correct?

And donations would help pay for the server, ie lemmy.world?

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

"Lemmy instances" are analogous to "email servers": your account is hosted on one of them, but you can communicate with people on other ones, because the servers know how to talk to each other.

Expanding the capacity of the Lemmy service will involve both (1) more instances, and (2) more resources for existing instances.

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[-] wilberfan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

So my Patreon subscription has paid off already! 😁

[-] Lantier@lemmy.world 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!

[-] Izzent@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the awesome work!

[-] BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 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.

[-] Raitontime@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

More power! More power is good.

[-] cannoli69@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Ruud is rad!!

[-] Alpagu@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] doctorbritta@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] cities@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Rockfury@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Seems like you've suddenly got a weight to bare. You're clearly lifting it. πŸ‘

[-] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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 :)

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[-] Saturdaycat@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] TheDarkBanana87@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Hello, i still doesn't quite grasp about the concept of federation and about how fediverse works.

But does it means that one instance can only run from one server?

Say lemmy.world running on Server A lemmy.ml running on Server B

User can register on whichever they want and can see the post from server A and Server B

But when Server A reach maximum capacity, can Server A scale up or distribute the load to multiple instances?

How can we solve the issue of computing power when more and more users migrate to using this services

Thank you πŸ˜€

Sorry if its a dumb question, but the whole Federation concept is still new to me. I created multiple account to log in to beehaw, mastodon, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml at first because i dont know that with one user, i can see other communities from another instances

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