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.

  • Maiznieks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2935·
    2 years ago

    Found one russian troll already. Oh well…

    Edit: lol, was not referring to OP, it was some world news post comment with chiese username that spread misinformation about russian war in ukraine. I just added my thoughts on the community.

    • BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      you can easily block any user by click on the 🚫 sign under their comment, and never have to deal with their bs again

      • thorle@feddit.deEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        wow, that’s actually a really nice feature. I wonder how it works though, i guess their text just will be blacked out for me, or will the post and all answers to it be completely vanish?

        • Drew Got No Clue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          They’re only invisible to you, it’s kind of like muting on Twitter more than blocking, as far as I understood. (I haven’t felt the need to do it yet!)

    • Drew Got No Clue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      Lesson learned today: never take anything for granted—if there’s a chance to be massively misunderstood, it will eventually happen lol

      • bobaduk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        202·
        2 years ago

        I think they meant they’ve seen one Russian troll on Lemmy already, not that skidface is a Russian troll.

        I … Have to assume so, anyway

      • bobaduk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        2 years ago

        I think they meant they’ve seen one Russian troll on Lemmy already, not that skidface is a Russian troll.

        I … Have to assume so, anyway