[Done] Server will be migrated (More power!) (lemmy.world)

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

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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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[-] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Wow that was fast.

[-] rarkgrames@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

[-] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

@ruud@lemmy.world DM me if you need help setting up monitoring/alerting on server health. IRL I'm on an SRE team, so happy to help where I can!

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

Thankyou for everything!

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

So, I just want to make sure I understand this as I am a new user from reddit. Instances are server based and cost money. Instances are Lemmy.World, Beebaw, Lemmy.Film, etc etc. These are all seperate hosted instances. Correct?

And donations would help pay for the server, ie lemmy.world?

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

"Lemmy instances" are analogous to "email servers": your account is hosted on one of them, but you can communicate with people on other ones, because the servers know how to talk to each other.

Expanding the capacity of the Lemmy service will involve both (1) more instances, and (2) more resources for existing instances.

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

Is one donation method preferred over another? That is to say, is one cheaper than the other?

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

Thanks for all you do @ruud@lemmy.world. You’re doing great!

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

Like many others, I came from Reddit and was initially hesitant to try it out, but I love this place so much! It really feels like the "worse" parts of Reddit have been skimmed off, and that definitely shows with how nice people seem here! Thank you so much!

[-] Maiznieks@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 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.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 1 points 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

[-] ndr@lemmy.world 1 points 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

[-] Zenryoku@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you very much! 🥳

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

Just joined. Thank you so much for your effort!

[-] mango@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I don't understand why a dedicated server is a good idea, when the only true way to scale is to use like Kubernetes or Docker and ECS Containers with scale?

Your just gonna run into more problems, you cannot vertically scale forever.

[-] CoolBeance@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For less tech-savvy newbies (like me), in case there is some confusion affecting your urge to engage/donate... My friend gave me a great explanation:

Lemmy the platform is planet Earth
“Instances” like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc. are like the different countries on Earth
When someone signs up, the user picks one instance to be a part of, like how an Earthling becomes a citizen of a country
If you register at lemmy.world, that means your home instance/ “home country” is lemmy.world, but you can “travel” to lemmy.ml, another instance / “country”, to check out and subscribe to their community
When you subscribe to a different instance that’s not your home instance, you can still participate in their content, and other people will be able to see which instance / “country” you’re from
Each instance can have its own version of the same “subreddit”, so you can have a c/Memes in your home instance that is different from a c/Memes in another instance. But you can subscribe to both separately
c/[community name] is the naming convention used here I think like r/[subreddit name] on Reddit. If talking about a community in a different instance, it's c/[community name]@[instance name] so like c/memes@lemmy.ml
Donations will help with the cost of running lemmy.world only and not lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.

Someone please correct any of this if any of it is wrong, I’ll happily edit

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

Is there a way to view C/Memes in all instances at once in aggregate? I don't want to miss out on what other instances are doing.

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Not yet, although there is ongoing discussion about this

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818

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

More power! More power is good.

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

What kind of server configuration are you guys running? A single instance?

[-] Refugee_Allstar@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Just donated $10! Appreciate all the work you all are doing to keep up with the growth.

[-] parsifal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Does it work on water now that it has MORE POWA?

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

Itd be cool to get donation flare!

[-] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can! ☑️ or ✅. The Patreon page mentioned that you're officially allowed to edit your username to add flair when you donate. I upgraded to $8/month specifically so I could add the flair, but then got cold feet about the idea. 😀

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

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

Nice!

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

Thanks for you work on this! What is the planned time for the outage?

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

Thanks for everything you're doing. I signed up for Patreon to contribute!

[-] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago

Are you running this out of your home?

I have self hosted small things before, but I was always curious about lager stuff like this.

What are your internet speeds?

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

Check the updated post. It's running on a dedicated server hosted by Hetzner. Specs are high-end: "AMD EPYC 7502P 32 Cores “Rome” CPU and 128GB RAM."

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

Went ahead and subbed on patreon. Hope that lemmy survives the growing pains and can develop some of the community that reddit had!

Also if there are any fellow former apollo users would def recommend checking out Mlem, its in testflight right now but seems to be working towards the experience that apollo gave on reddit.

[-] solidsnake911@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

iOS only? Or also Android? Btw, you receive notifications on Jerboa? What do you use for Lemmy on Android?

[-] zikk_transport2@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Would be awesome if you create some group chat (e.g. Discord?) and add sysadmins/devops to it. Would be more than happy to assist, especially if you have questions or need opinions.

I've been working as sre/sysadmin/devops for the past ~5 years and ~9 years of (Arch) Linux user. More than 1K Arch Wiki edits over that period of time.