[Done] Server will be migrated (More power!) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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 @veroxii@lemmy.world for assisting with that.

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[-] SkidFace@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Like many others, I came from Reddit and was initially hesitant to try it out, but I love this place so much! It really feels like the "worse" parts of Reddit have been skimmed off, and that definitely shows with how nice people seem here! Thank you so much!

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

how nice people seem here

yes! I love the culture of this place so far

[-] impulse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Truth is for me as someone who used Reddit for about the last 16 years, it very much feels like the early days of Reddit again.

Which is a very good thing, because that's what I originally signed up for compared to a metric fuckton of karma farming spam bots.

I just hope it gains enough traction to be sustainable in the long run, especially considering that it's relying on donations for funding, I believe?

[-] bandario@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

undefined> metric fuckton of karma farming spam bots.

People are hard at work writing bots for lemmy so don't worry, you'll be able to enjoy your regular hogwash again really soon.

Personally I think lemmy should go as far out of its way as possible to make bots in any and all forms just about impossible.

[-] YoungPrinceAmmon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we can enjoy while it lasts, because with more users more questionable content will come

[-] Maiznieks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Found one russian troll already. Oh well..

Edit: lol, was not referring to OP, it was some world news post comment with chiese username that spread misinformation about russian war in ukraine. I just added my thoughts on the community.