It's been a while, how have you been?
The Lemmy Club has been chugging along just fine, but with one issue - our database is beginning to push the limits of our storage drive. We're pushing 60gb on the DB. That's not photos, just text, vote records, etc. We have a larger drive with plenty of space but I only use it for backups because it's a slow drive and putting the database there would cause the site to crawl.
The last time this happened I just upgraded to the next tier of server up, which gave us a bit more storage and a decent bump in RAM/CPU. I could do the same again but the current server provider only offers an upgrade to a tier with 25gb more storage. We'd also get a bump in CPU/RAM but we're already overpowered in that regard. I like our current server provider however the numbers just don't make sense for us.
Instead, I've secured a server with a different provider. We'll get way more fast storage, more (albeit less powerful) CPU cores, and more RAM. For $7 less per month.
So what's changing?
- Server location moving from NYC to Washington, DC.
- Going from 6 x86 cores to 14 ARM cores
- Going from 24GB to 32GB of RAM (way more than we need tbh lol)
- Going from 100GB SSD storage to 1TB
- New company is European (server physically in US)
- Going from $27/mo ($22 main server + $5 for 1tb extra storage) to $20/mo
I've got the server up I'll just need a few hours to shut down the current one, back everything up completely, transfer, and restore it all. After that you shouldn't notice any change.
You can follow the upgrade process at https://status.thelemmy.club/maintenance
As always, thanks for being a member of The Lemmy Club.
If you’d like to help contribute to our ongoing costs, or would like to show some appreciation, you can at OpenCollective: https://opencollective.com/thelemmyclub
This instance is mostly self funded with no return whatsoever. The costs aren’t too high (~$440/yr) but community donations are always very appreciated. At the moment, we’re about 27% community funded. Either way, The Lemmy Club isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Also that number has went up quite a bit since I last looked. The photo storage (served by a seperate network storage solution) has started to balloon recently. I may have to look into a cheaper provider.