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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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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[-] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I was just worried that people wouldn't get the joke and it would just come across as odd. IDK, maybe it's actually a good thing if it makes people curious, to encourage more people to do the Patreon.

[-] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I think donators should get a certain level of respect for contributing monetarily. Its not everyone out here donating haha. Some flair is a good way to have a badge that signifies that contribution.

[-] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Hm. Apparently I'm very suggestible, because you talked me into it. ๐Ÿ™‚

[-] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you for your service. ๐Ÿซก

this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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