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.

  • TheDarkBanana87@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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 😀

    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

    • Ruud@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Optimal would be if users would spread over many servers, instead of all coming to Lemmy.world. But most users don’t fully understand the Federation concept so they think they need to register here so they can see local content?

      I think the current server can handle a lot of users. It’s just the software that isn’t ready for it… but that will improve. If ever this server gets too small, next step would be to scale using Kubernetes, but also that requires the software to be better prepared for that.

      • TheDarkBanana87@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Hello, after reading all the comments, I realized that I share the same questions (sort of) with the others.

        Thank you for replying and clarify things

        Cheers Ruud. And thank you 😊