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[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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[–] antik@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Damn, those server specs are crazy

[–] Saturn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Quick question: when are these changes supposed to take place? ASAP or at a specific time?

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[–] FlaxPicker@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Itd be cool to get donation flare!

[–] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

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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[–] oryx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for all you do! I'm excited for the upgrades.

[–] alizard@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Thankyou for everything!

[–] huojtkeg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

What is the service consumming most resources? Postgres, backend, frotend, nginx, pics?

[–] Jeef@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks!

[–] Someology@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] ilikedatsyuk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I signed up on Patreon. Thank you for hosting + making it possible. I thought about adding an emoji check mark next to my name but gave up the idea. :-)
I made up a little proposal on how I think load on the instances could be more effectively distributed. The problem of load on the instance servers + the cost of hosting as a result isn't going to get better with time. 🙂 If you have any feedback or interest, feel free to LMK, and thanks again.

[–] clutch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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[–] croobat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Doing God's work here mate.

[–] pathief@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

OpenCollective link gives me "Unexpected error". Edit: got it now

[–] spicyjimmy87762@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for all the work!

[–] ndr@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

On the other hand, posting on smaller instances is really fast now. Still kind of slow here.

[–] TurretCorruption@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I just hope this doesn't cause ossies down the line. A lot of us are from reddit, and it wouldn't shock me if a lot of new users go back to reddit regardless of the outcome.

I'd hate for this situation to put unessecary financial strain on this service

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[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

congrats

[–] morcution@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Wow! So impressive!

[–] Lemming@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

My submissions still hang indefinitely, but when I reload they are there. I dunno if this is something connected to lemmy's code itself or the server but it's a bit broken

[–] Zenryoku@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

Thank you very much! 🥳

[–] mango@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] CannaVet@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Godspeed, @Ruud@lemmy.world!

[–] andobando@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] skipseagull@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Great job!

[–] LilBagOfBunnies@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I'm very impressed with how smoothly that went, very well done!

[–] solidsnake911@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Great news!!

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