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[Done] Server will be migrated (More power!) (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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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[–] fudrummer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years 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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[–] Clipboards@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Thanks Ruud!

[–] wit@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

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

[–] R15K@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I’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.

[–] TheRoxyWC2@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] MysticSmear@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

as one of the new people here, awesome!

[–] WhereGondor@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Thanks for accommodating us!

[–] Izzent@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the awesome work!

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years 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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[–] wilberfan@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

So my Patreon subscription has paid off already! 😁

[–] BrainisfineIthink@lemmy.one 9 points 2 years 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.

[–] Lantier@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] cannoli69@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Ruud is rad!!

[–] prototypeByDesign@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] Flim@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

He turns it back on?

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[–] cities@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Raitontime@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

More power! More power is good.

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