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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[–] BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] lp0101@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I'm not too familiar with Lemmy's codebase, but I am a devops engineer. Is the software written in any way to support horizontal scaling? If so, I'd be happy to consult/help to get the instance onto an autoscaling platform eventually.

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[–] cities@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I hope more third party apps are made in the future for iOS

[–] iconic_admin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

New here as well. The patreon link is for mastodon.world. Donating here is helpful for mastodon and Lenny.world?

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yes, but for mastodon there's currently enough. Now it's more for the added costs for Lemmy.

[–] cannoli69@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Ruud is rad!!

[–] miked@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would prefer if lemmy.world and mastodon.world donations were NOT comingled.

I want to donate to lemmy.world but already contribute to my mastodon instance (sfba.social) as well as the mastodon project.

[–] 3nt3r@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Buts the same guy hosting both lemmy.world and mastodon.world so the money is going to the same place regardless if they are comingled or not so why does it matter?

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[–] prototypeByDesign@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What happens to accounts/history created here if the server shuts down?

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

He turns it back on?

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[–] nepatriots32@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Not sure if you know yet, but I was curious when this would happen and what it looks like when the server is down. Will we have a server maintenance message pop up when we try to go to lemmy.world or will some stuff show up but just nothing works until the move is finished?

[–] Alpagu@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's Perfect Now. Thank u @Ruud You must be hero. 🦸🦸🏿🦸🏾‍♀️

[–] the_right_god@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

How to contribute? Do you have Patreon?

[–] TheDarkBanana87@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Hello, i still doesn't quite grasp about the concept of federation and about how fediverse works.

But does it means that one instance can only run from one server?

Say lemmy.world running on Server A lemmy.ml running on Server B

User can register on whichever they want and can see the post from server A and Server B

But when Server A reach maximum capacity, can Server A scale up or distribute the load to multiple instances?

How can we solve the issue of computing power when more and more users migrate to using this services

Thank you 😀

Sorry if its a dumb question, but the whole Federation concept is still new to me. I created multiple account to log in to beehaw, mastodon, lemmy.world, lemmy.ml at first because i dont know that with one user, i can see other communities from another instances

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[–] WaffleFriends@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Like everyone else here, I'm a reddit refugee but I'm quite excited for this instance

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

@davetansley@lemmy.world I blame you for this!

[–] doctorbritta@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Always give a long estimate so people are pleasantly surprised :)

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Unlimited POWAAAAAH!

[–] Proko@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks for all you do @ruud@lemmy.world. You’re doing great!

[–] Saturdaycat@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

That's awesome! Wasn't even a long downtime

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