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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 :-) )

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Thanks!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the work you put into this server!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Damn, those server specs are crazy

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

My submissions still hang indefinitely, but when I reload they are there. I dunno if this is something connected to lemmy's code itself or the server but it's a bit broken

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Quick question: when are these changes supposed to take place? ASAP or at a specific time?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I just hope this doesn't cause ossies down the line. A lot of us are from reddit, and it wouldn't shock me if a lot of new users go back to reddit regardless of the outcome.

I'd hate for this situation to put unessecary financial strain on this service

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for all the work!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Doing God's work here mate.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

On the other hand, posting on smaller instances is really fast now. Still kind of slow here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What is the ratio from the before and after migration server capacity? 1:3, maybe 1:5?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

If you didn't tell I wouldn't even have noticed, awesome work!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Wow! So impressive!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you very much! ๐Ÿฅณ

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I don't understand why a dedicated server is a good idea, when the only true way to scale is to use like Kubernetes or Docker and ECS Containers with scale?

Your just gonna run into more problems, you cannot vertically scale forever.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thankyou for everything!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

What is the service consumming most resources? Postgres, backend, frotend, nginx, pics?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

What kind of server configuration are you guys running? A single instance?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you for doing that! We appreciate having a place to come.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for all you do! I'm excited for the upgrades.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Great news!!

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