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.

  • Saturn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 years ago

    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.

      • Saturn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        That is a good way to put it! Yeah, I can totally appreciate what they’re doing over there, but I’m excited to have lemmy.world be where I call home now.