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

Thing is... I'm not sure if its abandonded, or there have been no breaking changes in recent versions of lemmy so no dev work has been required. Last release was in July, and the dev himself has been active on Github recently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Not really. Good spot, I'll remove it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's just a UI, all the content itself is in the same backend. It's very light weight to host, so I'd only shut it down if it has issues.. eg security or interop with future Lemmy versions.

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I've spun this up for fun, to see how it compares to the base lemmy UI. Give it a whirl, and post any feedback in this thread. Enjoy!

It could go down at any time, as it looks as though the dev is no longer maintining it...

edit: using this https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

But... Offspring! Weezer!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Good. Public office should not be a shield for objectively bad actions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Curried sausages. Curried sausages!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bastards. I hope the vehicle is returned unscathed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I'm not yet caffeinated.. thank you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Front page side bar at the bottom has a link to my Ko-fi donation page, but I know you know that 🙂

If you mean "where do the funds go?" Funds are used to cover various costs associated with running aussie.zone, such as:
virtual private server
server backups
object storage for images
domain registration

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Honestly... no. I'm not an accountant, so truing up transactions from my Paypal account is a pain.

Recurring donations have dropped, totally understandable in the current economic climate. Some very generous early one off donations mean I'm not paying out of pocket. But that buffer is shrinking month by month.

Previously recurring monthly donations covered ~50% of the monthly costs, this is down to ~30%. Not an issue, some early one off donations mean the kitty is still enough to cover the server costs until Feb/March.

I'm ok to cover the gap between recurring donations and monthly costs. If a time comes when that isn't the case, I'll be sure to let everyone know. For now, don't stress 🙂

 

Its been 6 months or so... figure its time for another of these. Keep in mind there have been some major config changes in the last week, which has resulted in the oddities below.

Graphs below cover 2 months, except Cloudflare which only goes to 30 days on free accounts.

CPU:

Memory:

Network:

Storage:

Cloudflare caching:

Comments: The server is still happily chugging along. Looking even happier now that I've properly migrated pict-rs to its integrated object storage config, rather than the bodged up setup.

RAM/CPU are all fine. Storage use is growing slowly as various databases grow. Still a long way from needing to purge old posts, if ever.

Cloudflare is saving less traffic these days, since Lemmy added support to proxy all images. Not a concern, well under the bandwidth cap for the server.

As usual feel free to ask any questions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
 

testing

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Pictures are broken (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm in the process of migrating images to a properly configured object storage setup. This involves an offline migration of files. Once complete, I'll start up pict-rs again. Until then, most images will be broken.

All going well this will finish by morning Perth time, and once up and running again may help with the ongoing issues we've had with images.

 

After some users have had issues recently, I've finally gotten around to putting in place a better solution for outbound email from this instance. It now sends out via Amazon SES, rather than directly from our OVH VPS.

The result is emails should actually get to more people now, rather than being blocked by over-enthusiastic spam filters... looking at you Outlook and Gmail.

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REBOOTING (aussie.zone)
 

About to reboot the server, hold onto your hats.

 

Hey all, following the work over the weekend we're now running Lemmy 0.19.4. please post any comments, questions, feedback or issues in this thread.

One of the major features added has been the ability to proxy third party images, which I've enabled. I'll be keeping a closer eye on our server utilisation to see how this goes...

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Maintenance (aussie.zone)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This weekend I'll be working to upgrade AZ to lemmy 0.19.4, which requires changes to some other back end supporting systems.

Expect occasional errors/slowdowns, broken images etc.

Once complete, I'll be making further changes to enable/tweak some of the new features.

UPDATE: one of the back end component upgrades requires dumping and reimporting the entire lemmy database. This will require ~1 hour of total downtime for the site. I expect this to kick off tonight ~9pm Perth time.

UPDATE2: DB dump/re-import going to happen ~6pm Perth time, ie about 10 minutes from this edit.

UPDATGE3: we're back after the postgres upgrade. Next will be a brief outage for the lemmy upgrade itself... after I've had dinner 🙂

UPDATE34: We're on lemmy 0.19.4 now. I'll be looking at new features/settings and playing around with them.

 

Its been a little while since I posted stuff :)

CPU:

Memory:

Network:

Storage:

Cloudflare caching:

Comments:
Not much has changed in quite a while. I still have a cron-job running to restart Lemmy every day due to memory leaks, hopefully this improves with future updates. Outside of that, CPU, memory and network usage are fine.
Object storage usage is growing steadily, but we're a long way from paying more than the monthly minimum Wasabi fee.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

The upgrade to lemmy 0.19 has introduced some issues that are being investigated.. but we currently have no fixes for:

  • thumbnails break after a time. Caused by memory exhaustion killing object storage processes.
  • messages to/from lemmy instance not yet running 0.19 are not federating. I believe it requires bugfixes by the devs.

~~I've re-enabled 2 hourly lemmy restarts. Hopefully this will help with both issues, though it will result in a disruption to the site around every couple of hours.

When the hourly restarts are disabled I'll unpin this post. As any other issues are identified I'll post them here too. ~~

Update: I've disabled the 2 hourly restart after upgrading to 0.19.2... lets see how this goes...

Update2: no issues seen since the upgrade, looks to have resolved both the memory leak and the federation issues. Hooray :)

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test (aussie.zone)
 

test

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Lemmy 0.19 Upgrade (aussie.zone)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

~~I'll be restarting AZ today for an update to lemmy 0.19.~~

Upgrade complete.

This is a major upgrade, so I expect there to be some issues. Strap in, enjoy the ride.

Expect:

  • further restarts
  • bugs
  • slowdowns
  • logouts
  • 2FA being disabled
  • possibly issues with images, upgrading pictrs to 0.4 at the same time
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