Thanks for the prompt response! I shall have patience 😁. Post & Title have been edited to reflect your update.

As usual, many thanks for your continued maintenance efforts & personal labor.

Thank you, appreciate all the hard work that goes into keeping this instance alive.

Heads up: a new backend issue has been opened to track performance degradation: lemmy#3466. Looks like there's also a private matrix channel that sprouted up for performance tuning & troubleshooting that you might potentially be interested in joining: info.

Thanks for the update (and giving me a new home!).

Thank you!

Can you update this thread when it's over?

Lovely 😍

Killer stuff! Sorry for my contributing undue pressure on top of what was probably already a taxing procedure happening in the server room.

Out of curiousity: how do you feel about Lemmy performance so far? I'm actually a little bit surprised that we already managed to outstrip the prior configuration. I suppose that inter-instance ActivityPub traffic just punches really hard regardless of intra-instance activity?

What can we (ordinary users) do to help? I'm in Europe, would it be better if I used the SDFeu server as my home instance?

This station is now the ultimate power in the fediverse! I suggest we use it.

You're all doing an amazing job!

I became an ARPA member this past week and am happy to donate again to chip in for this hardware upgrade.

Edit: donated at the $48 yearly level.

Or if you want a button to donate: https://sdf.org/support/

Donated! SDF is what the future of the internet should look like! I love you peeps so much! ♥

Done.

Ping: response from SDF added.

Ditto.

You're absolutely welcome to do that as it is your decision and you have many choices. We hope to build a community of folks that would like to help the fediverse grow and support smaller instances. Similar growing pains were seen during the twitter exodous last September.

As someone working on integrations I'd also have to leave if we're permanently blocking the largest instance, but I'd like to give SDF the benefit of the doubt here. Maybe this was just a temporary measure to deal with the insane load from yesterday?