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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[–] Alpagu@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

It's Perfect Now. Thank u @Ruud You must be hero. πŸ¦ΈπŸ¦ΈπŸΏπŸ¦ΈπŸΎβ€β™€οΈ

[–] Saturdaycat@reddthat.com 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

This is literally a Wikipedia moment for social media, thank you @Ruud

[–] TheDarkBanana87@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years 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 πŸ˜€

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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[–] the_right_god@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

How to contribute? Do you have Patreon?

[–] Proko@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Rockfury@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Seems like you've suddenly got a weight to bare. You're clearly lifting it. πŸ‘

[–] Cold_Brew_Enema@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Loving it here so far!

[–] kiyoomii@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Incredible. Thank you for your efforts on this!

[–] Debo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Contributed to the OpenCollective link. Thanks for the efforts @Ruud and team!

[–] ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The site is way more performant following the migration!

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Are you running this out of your home?

I have self hosted small things before, but I was always curious about lager stuff like this.

What are your internet speeds?

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[–] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[–] lrabbt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

That's my admin!

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

Lemmy.world is fantastic, thanks for your efforts. It fit perfectly with all the criteria I had when choosing where to host my account.

That being said, I wish Lemmy.ml, the "main" Lemmy instance, more often registered communities created here. At the moment, most people just search for communities there and many of our own don't show up because no user from that instance interacted with our new and growing communities just yet - not only does this create a fragmentation issue, but given the massive load spike, Lemmy.ml is actually running a bit slow whereas Lemmy.world is handling posts better, making interaction easier specially when migrating users from Reddit or other places. For instance, my GameBoy community is ready, with users, and I'm about to post some good content - but as far as someone from Lemmy.ml is concerned, no such community exists.

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[–] themollusk215@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

so cool getting to see this thing grow in real time

[–] ClumsyAssassin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Just joined. Thank you so much for your effort!

[–] Saturn@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m glad to hear about the new users (I myself am one.) and the server upgrades!

I think lemmy.world suits me better than Beehaw. (great folks over there, no shade)

I like that lemmy.world let’s communities be openly created by users, as well as the inclusion of downvoting which I personally prefer.

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[–] ruud@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[–] antik@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] dissonant@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

thanks for everything you're doing man

[–] bobaduk@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

What's the current setup, if you don't mind me asking?

[–] FreddyNO@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the work you put into this server!

[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

That was fast! Great job! :)

[–] doctorbritta@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] animist@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"It'll be back in Β«checks watchΒ» 5 weeks."

4 minutes later

"All good!"

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