lemmy.radio will be down for up to an hour starting at 00:00 UTC 03/26/2026

This is needed for server maintenance. I’ll post here again when we are up and discuss the updates!

~ w0odl

post-downtime notes:

Thanks for putting up with the (un)scheduled downtime!

A status update: for the past 2 years, we have operated using a fairly large size VPS using Akamai/Linode. To be specific, we were using:

  • 16GB ram
  • 8 CPUs
  • 320GB drive

This was mostly due to the the large amounts of images, videos, media that we accumulate over the years we’ve been up and running (we’re going to be turning 3 years old very soon btw!)

A few months ago, to help with the large costs of running this site, I moved all of our media to object storage, which TREMENDOUSLY cut down our drive space usage. And…

Today is the day, I actually scaled us back to a “smaller” VPS to help cut down on prices further. We are currently using:

  • 8GB ram
  • 4 CPUs
  • 160GB drive

So let’s talk turkey about savings (if you care)

This drops our server fees from about ~$175/month to around ~$90/month

This is the price of the VPS, object storage, .radio domain, and email services we use.

Thank you for putting up with the hour or so we were down. I’m hoping that this will keep us running WELL into the future.

Cheers and 73,

w0odl

  • 667English
    5·
    19 days ago

    As always, thank you for shouldering the burdens of administering the instance. While I know you’ve said no before to financial contributions—I, and probably others—would still be happy to contribute, even if only to cover the amount equal to your hosting costs.

    • w0odlOPMA
      3·
      3 days ago

      I’ve been thinking about this comment a lot lately, and I think I’m going to open my mind to contributions.

      More to come, but I think I’ve had it squared in my mind to take the brunt of the payments/hosting. But I think that if people want to help in this manner, it’d be rude of me to stop them and may make people think I’m “cutting them out” of what lemmy.radio is.

      I want this to be a public instance (for hams) and I’d love for people to contribute in any way they want.

      Definitely open to suggestions. I was looking at https://opencollective.com/ to help facilitate.