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we accidentally did the upgrade just now, which is what you just experienced. anyways we're at like double the power and processing, and three times the storage we were previously at so yeah hopefully that'll be good. anyways i guess i'll leave this post stickied until i go to sleep in like an hour

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[–] Arystique@beehaw.org 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought Reddit hugged yall to death again

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

oh god hopefully not with what we're running now lol, we'll see on the 12th i guess but for some perspective we can probably handle traffic of three to five times the intensity of what we did today (eyeballing it) based on just the metrics i can quickly reference now (i am not our tech person)

[–] Arystique@beehaw.org 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

With r/spez's AMA going the way it did I wouldn't be surprised

[–] GuyDudeman@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the Reddit admins weren’t deleting every post and comment about Lemmy, possibly there would be an influx.

[–] Arystique@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

there actually was a mass influx and there still is

[–] satouru@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit that’s almost a 90deg angle lmao!

Maybe admins should set up one of these donations pages with current donations for the month/monthly operational costs, so we can help when the maintenance budget gets a bit tight? I can help build that, if need be.

[–] V4uban@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] zark@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I don’t know what that other link posted is, which I got warning for when I tried to visit, but I believe Beehaw primarily uses OpenCollective, and this is overview: https://opencollective.com/beehaw

[–] lemmyng@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

Would it be worth adding a CDN (eg cloudflare or fastly) as a preventative measure? I don't know what your traffic distribution is between static and dynamic content, but i imagine being able to offload image GETs would at least prevent you from getting surprise egress traffic bills.

CF also has an "always online" feature to serve a cached version of the site of the server is down. It won't allow people to post it comment, but it might provide a smoother user experience.