As always, the transparency is appreciated. Some growing pains are certainly to be expected
Whenever I get frustrated by the outages I remind myself: still better than reddit.
Thanks to lemmy I don't doom scroll anymore because either there is an outage or I read all the new content I'm subscribed to in 10-20 minutes
That's mostly how I redditted for years. It was mostly for those moments in between things, on the toilet, laying in bed at night. Not something I did for long periods of time.
Look at this guy with his reasonable social media use. YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME??
Scrolling a few miles or so a day isn’t too bad, is it?
Huh, I could keep up with my daily feeds before, now not so much.
I fallback to one of the many instances that federate with lw. Don’t get frustrated at all bro
I don't blame you for this, but the uptime records are incomplete at best. I've experienced the site being down (and confirmed with Down for Everyone or Just Me), yet status.lemmy.world showed all systems operational. As I'm writing this, status.lemmy.world is missing most data up to yesterday and dash.lemmy.world shows 16 days uptime.
I have lots of respect to you for even having these. I also remember status.lemmy.world work mostly fine some time ago. But as of right now, both uptime monitors fail to serve their purpose.
You need to hover over the status bar to see if there is any down time for that day. We can enable it to log incidents every time there is a burp, but we are still tuning alerts as we only have it create a incident when we ACK it in PagerDuty. You can always check the dashboard for up to the minute stats, as well as https://lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_lemmy-world We'll add this info to make things clearer <3
EDIT: Added more info to our status page, thanks for the feedback Machefi!
EDIT2: Also the missing data is due to us removing and adding more specific monitors for the different infra services.
Excuse me stop being so cool, you're raising the bar too high for everyone else thank you
Maybe its just the times I'm accessing but its seem better this week to me compared to the last few ones.
Let me be real. I never noticed outages stopping. It feels like it's daily, I'm used to it, but I think it happens so often that lemmy.world has lost its growth opportunity, and we alienated the normies. I'm still going to stay on Lemmy, and I believe you're doing the best you can, but we lost for the time being, the migration to Lemmy from Reddit is stunted.
We shouldn't be trying to grow a single instance. That defeats the whole point of Lemmy. I started on Lemmy world and switched once I got fed up with the constant connection issues. Plus, Lemmy world blocked piracy communities so fuck that. I'm happy that I am able to quickly create an account on another instance.
Good luck, no pressure.
On your Cloudflare account, if there was a change in the CNAME/A record being proxied vs. DNS only, that could cause an issue, as Cloudflare would then strip headers off the request that your Apache/Nginx would be looking for.
If you enabled HTTP DDoS protection in your Security -> WAF tab (I think that’s where it is) that could do this too. Might be worth disabling.
Also check for any headers your HTTP load balancer might be expecting, that Cloudflare could be stripping.
Might be worth tailing the webserver logs to see what happens to requests coming in from Cloudflare.
Everyone talking about the downtime including lemme and me just enjoying lemmy like never before. I've experienced no downtime so far
The beauty of a federated app is that I do not have to rely on lw or lemme. Use another instance and go on with my day 😃
Thanks for keeping us up to date, I don't mind downtime personally as long as I'm aware of what's going on
So what you're saying is we were the ddosers all along 😹
Only thing that needs to be said here is: thank you for the best Lemmy instance (in my opinion) out there!
Could look into Dacentec if you need more cheap servers. I use them for my stuff. YMMV since you're getting a hell of a lot more traffic than I am but they haven't blocked Cloudflare on mine yet so that's a plus. :)
Hetzner is a pretty good provider. It would be nice to stick with them if possible.
I brows all, never noticed as outage lol.
You guys rule. Thanks for all the hard work.
So the recent reports about ddos attacks were false alarms?
This is about what's happening the last few days I think? Lemmy World has been a lot more stable compared to even a week ago but still has some daily downtime. But not for hours every day anymore
Thanks for the transparency. I think you lost some trust with the Discord debacle, but this makes me feel a lot better about things.
Is there anything we can do to help? Donations? Tech volunteers? Visit hosting company with a baseball bat?
I imagine spreading out across instances, and having accounts in instances beyond the biggest one helps, as it reduces traffic and strain on lemmy.world and its servers.
lemmy.world still deserves support, like with donations, though helping reduce the strain is something anyone can do, albeit small, though free of charge.
The transparency is appreciated.
Thanks for sharing the dash link, and for your work!
Thanks for the updates and transparency.
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