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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by smorks to c/main
 

Sorry for the short notice, but I will be performing some server maintenance at 10:30 CST tonight.

I am going to switch to the next plan up (6 CPU 4 GB RAM) and take a snapshot of the VM while i'm at it. I'm hoping it shouldn't take too long.

I plan on doing a longer "State of the Instance" post soon, just to update everyone with how we're doing with donations, etc.

edit: 10:51 PM - Maintenance is complete!

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[–] shinratdr 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] smorks 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] shinratdr 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Threw in $2 a month, thanks for running this :) Make sure you update your projected costs on liberapay if you increased the server specs.

[–] smorks 5 points 2 years ago

thank you! and thank you for the reminder!

[–] Adderbox76 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Any potential to do what mstn.ca did and get help with some finding from CIRA?

[–] smorks 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

maybe? they have a much higher user count than here, (+34K i think?), and there could be other issues as well, but I suppose it's something worth looking in to.

[–] otter 6 points 2 years ago

I think that would be most ideal. They may also be able to help with governance and non-profit stuff. They're a pretty good organization and open decentralized internet is right up their alley.

Worth reaching out :)

[–] Zamboniman 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The ol' 386 DX needed a new 120 MB hard drive, did it?

[–] smorks 6 points 2 years ago

haha yep! i might have to press the turbo button too.

[–] kethali 3 points 2 years ago

120MB? Big spender!

[–] grte 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Presumably this costs money. Is there some way to pitch in?

[–] smorks 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] kethali 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Liberapay doesn't take a cut, does the payment processing fee from Stripe get taken from the donation amount before getting sent to you? I'm assuming yes, just want to make sure.

[–] smorks 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

pretty sure Stripe takes a fee of some sort. i'm new to taking donations too.

[–] grte 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Off a CA$36.40 donation they took CA$1.36. Not the worst rate.

[–] smorks 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] grte 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

No, thank you for putting in the time and work.

[–] Undearius 8 points 2 years ago

There's some links in the sidebar of the homepage.

[–] UncleBadTouch 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

this makes me want to bring my 42U rack back in, and acquire a server again. what kinda traffic does the site use? not that i could host it, but its something i did back in the day

[–] smorks 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

here's a bandwidth chart for the past week:

I think the total is around 150 GB so far, so it's not too crazy yet.

[–] UncleBadTouch 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

so, you're saying you dont want me to upload all the pictures of my birds just yet?

[–] smorks 2 points 2 years ago

you can't give it all away in one shot, right? haha

[–] sigh 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

it’s not too crazy yet

brother I came to party

[–] lightrush 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] smorks 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

heh sorry about that! i should have put more info in that message, but I was rushing. i also should have given more notice, but wanted to get it done before it got too late.

[–] lightrush 6 points 2 years ago

Not knocking you at all. I was joking. I've been on a DevOps team, I know how it is. 👏💛

[–] Thirdnipple79 4 points 2 years ago

So when is the next server upgrade? Tonight? Haha. The site is growing fast.