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[Done] Server will be migrated (More power!) (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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 @veroxii@lemmy.world for assisting with that.

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[-] Saturdaycat@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Proko@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Thanks for all you do @ruud@lemmy.world. You’re doing great!

[-] Rockfury@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] the_right_god@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

How to contribute? Do you have Patreon?

[-] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

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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[-] ClumsyAssassin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Just joined. Thank you so much for your effort!

[-] kiyoomii@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Incredible. Thank you for your efforts on this!

[-] lrabbt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

That's my admin!

[-] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Thank you.

[-] dissonant@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

thanks for everything you're doing man

[-] vepro@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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

[-] mango@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

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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