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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[–] delaghetto@lemmy.world 83 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So, I just want to make sure I understand this as I am a new user from reddit. Instances are server based and cost money. Instances are Lemmy.World, Beebaw, Lemmy.Film, etc etc. These are all seperate hosted instances. Correct?

And donations would help pay for the server, ie lemmy.world?

[–] AcidOctopus@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

I'm a newbie from Reddit too, but your understanding matches mine.

[–] ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, lemmy.world, lemmy.film, beebaw and etc are other instances of Lemmy and users from other instances can interact with other instances.

And yes donations help the server afloat.

Pretty cool stuff.

[–] delaghetto@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Awesome, thank you for this information. I hope you have a great week!

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

That is correct. I've signed up for monthly donations to help cover costs (as well as added tip to help the admins themselves).

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

"Lemmy instances" are analogous to "email servers": your account is hosted on one of them, but you can communicate with people on other ones, because the servers know how to talk to each other.

Expanding the capacity of the Lemmy service will involve both (1) more instances, and (2) more resources for existing instances.

[–] Hetoimos@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

That's right.