Just chiming in with another thank you for this as well as everything else you do! The difference is super noticeable, and makes the experience a lot better.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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it's working much better now, thank you!!
Not perfect, but it does seem much faster and MUCH more stable. Load times are less than 10s compared to ~30s before and I haven't had a time out error yet. That's using Voyager as a frontend app and download speeds of 227Mbps for reference. Thanks for what you do seahorse! Hope you never feel underappreciated.
Just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work and commitment to this server. I love it here, and I appreciate you!
Night and day difference for me, thanks for upgrading!
Huzzah!
Thank you!
I guess that was the downtime overnight? Glad to see an active admin team. Sounds like it's time for me to setup a support subscription. Is there a Patreon account, or similar?
No, wasn't overnight. Not sure what that was about but CPU was at 100% for most of it. That's when I decided to upgrade the resources.
There's a liberapay link in the sidebar if you're so inclined.
The sidebar for the whole instance? I think that's jusy not visible anywhere, in Jerboa. I'll have to look for it at my desktop, later.
You can get to it on Jerboa by tapping the 3 vertical dots in the upper right corner and going to "site info". Either way, this is the link on it: https://liberapay.com/seahorse
Sure enough, there it is.
Thank you for your continued effort!
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Thanks very much! Curious what the specs are at this point, if you’re willing to share!
Nothing terribly impressive. 4 vCPUs and 8 GB RAM on a 120 GB ssd.
What CPUs are they? Like a modern Epyc, or a crusty 20 year old box like some of our appsrvs at work?
I guess it doesn’t need much for essentially database and the base of the website. I always figured it would need more. Any plans on going physical?
Not sure. Whatever digital ocean runs
Boy 120GB doesn't seem like much. Do photo uploads go somewhere else, perhaps?
Yeah there's object storage I use for photos.
Thank you for all you do.
Thank you!