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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by Dave@lemmy.nz to c/support@lemmy.nz

Earlier in the series:

TL;DR of this post:

  • We will move to a new VPS this weekend
  • Lemmy.nz will be down (properly down) from sometime after 7:30PM Friday until the job is done. This should be completed within a few hours but I reserve the right to use Saturday as well ๐Ÿ™‚
  • Initial estimates are that the VPS will be around NZD $50/mo, on top of image storage costs (hard to guess - perhaps $10/mo)

I have now confirmed a plan with a VPS host Zappie, in their Auckland data centre. This is in fact the same place the existing server is colocated.

The specs of the new VPS:

CPU: 4 Cores Ram: 8GB Disk: 150GB Monthly Traffic: 1TB

We may need to adjust things as we go. Initially I will keep our current setup (including Cloudflare), but as we understand better what our needs are I am keen to move off Cloudflare as there was quite a lot of support for that move.

I have copied things across to test and it runs Lemmy well, similar to the current server, though that's without users, federation, and rogue AI scrapers but Zappie can bump specs pretty quick if needed.

Please let me know if you have any questions, I'm always happy to provide more details ๐Ÿ™‚

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[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 2 days ago

I noticed when cm0002 created an account on my instance that the storage for pictrs went up by a lot - before then there there were no meme communities - now I have almost them all and lots of really weird communities in my DB

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 days ago

Haha yeah I use to have the community-seeder software that would automatically find and subscribe a seeder account to any communities over a certain threshold. These days it doesn't work but there is lemmy-federate instead, which automatically gets an account you nominate to subscribe to communities of other instances that have opted in. So lemmy.nz probably has the vast majority of communities.Lots of memes!

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