this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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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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[โ€“] zikk_transport2@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Would be awesome if you create some group chat (e.g. Discord?) and add sysadmins/devops to it. Would be more than happy to assist, especially if you have questions or need opinions.

I've been working as sre/sysadmin/devops for the past ~5 years and ~9 years of (Arch) Linux user. More than 1K Arch Wiki edits over that period of time.

[โ€“] ruud@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] BCas@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

We are growing too powerful!

[โ€“] artistan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The OpenCollective link seems to be reaching an error page a, FYI.

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[โ€“] wit@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

@ruud@lemmy.world, I just want it to be known that you rock. Fucking thank you for all the hard work!

[โ€“] Anorack@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Just subbed to the Patreon!

[โ€“] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Thanks for everything so far. Will definitely be donating

[โ€“] Refugee_Allstar@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Just donated $10! Appreciate all the work you all are doing to keep up with the growth.

[โ€“] disney@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Came here from Reddit and I already love it so much more! :)

[โ€“] WintryLemon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much. The welcome for all us reddit refugees has been really warm and it's deeply appreciated.

[โ€“] Speckle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Thank you for making this happen! Just signed up for a regular donation to help with costs ๐Ÿ‘

[โ€“] fudrummer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ruud@lemmy.world DM me if you need help setting up monitoring/alerting on server health. IRL I'm on an SRE team, so happy to help where I can!

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[โ€“] themollusk215@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

so cool getting to see this thing grow in real time

[โ€“] Clipboards@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Thanks Ruud!

[โ€“] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sounds good. i mean it is only 10 to 30 minutes no login and lemmy.world content but because of the decentralization content from other servers should still be viewable. To the reader: it would be nice it you pay money IF you can. Server bandwidth is a problem that can mostly be solved by throwing money at it

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[โ€“] Lantier@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

When I saw you were an admin of a large mastodon server, I knew this Lemmy instance was in good hands. Well done!

[โ€“] MysticSmear@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

as one of the new people here, awesome!

[โ€“] Izzent@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the awesome work!

[โ€“] R15K@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Iโ€™m just another reddit refugee but I wanted to say thank you for your time, effort and money. As I slowly come to terms with federation I see why some are so passionate about it.

[โ€“] Overcast@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sounds like Lemmy is quite power hungry. What are the specs of the new server? Can Lemmy be split into its services (e.g pictures on a different servers?)

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[โ€“] wilberfan@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

So my Patreon subscription has paid off already! ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] antik@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Thanks for all the work you put in @ruud@lemmy.world

[โ€“] TheRoxyWC2@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, Ruud, I've chipped in re costs :) Keep up the good work.

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[โ€“] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Cool, lemmy.world seems to be one of the busiest with lots of new users, we should be making it clear to new users that they can sign up with ANY lemmy instance and still access lemmy.world communities though. gotta keep the load spread out.

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[โ€“] WhereGondor@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Thanks for accommodating us!

I don't know what most of that means but you guys (and/or gals!) fuckin rule and I appreciate the absolute hell out of you.

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