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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 @[email protected] for assisting with that.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Performance is looking awesome, lemmy.world is responding very fast to community subscription requests and search is also very fast. My experience when using other instances was that search didn't work at all, hindering community discovery.

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is how I understand it: a current limitation (feature?) Is that you can only search from your instance to other communities if someone from your instance has interacted with it. But if you use https://browse.feddit.de/ you can search across all instances. Then subscribe to it, or search the whole url in your own instances search. Once an instance interacts with another, now other people from your instance can search for it by simple name.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Went ahead and subbed on patreon. Hope that lemmy survives the growing pains and can develop some of the community that reddit had!

Also if there are any fellow former apollo users would def recommend checking out Mlem, its in testflight right now but seems to be working towards the experience that apollo gave on reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I really appreciate what you're doing, but I'm worried how this instance will continue scaling. What happens when it gets to 1 million users? 10 million? We can scale vertically only somewhat, but horizontal scaling seems to be limited to "just join a new instance 4head" and that just...doesn't have a good experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ya what are the limitations with scaling horizontally? Scaling up is a stop gap.

Ruud, thank you for your investment here though.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks Ruud!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Incredible. Thank you for your efforts on this!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, Ruud, I've chipped in re costs :) Keep up the good work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same thanks so much for doing this Ruud!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m glad to hear about the new users (I myself am one.) and the server upgrades!

I think lemmy.world suits me better than Beehaw. (great folks over there, no shade)

I like that lemmy.world let’s communities be openly created by users, as well as the inclusion of downvoting which I personally prefer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Umm I joined at 2k users now there are over 15k. Damn this is exploding.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe Reddit signed a little death sentence with APIpocalypse. Elon did same shit and Twitter actions in stock market dropped a lot! (even more than with adquisition). Reddit wants go to stock market soon.

Bad move u/spez and Reddit staff!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's my admin!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thankyou for everything!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for everything you're doing. I signed up for Patreon to contribute!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Itd be cool to get donation flare!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

You can! β˜‘οΈ or βœ…. The Patreon page mentioned that you're officially allowed to edit your username to add flair when you donate. I upgraded to $8/month specifically so I could add the flair, but then got cold feet about the idea. πŸ˜€

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for you work on this! What is the planned time for the outage?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for all you do @[email protected]. You’re doing great!

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