Well, whew again! The influx of new users into Sopuli surprised not only me, but also Hetzner’s VPS. The disk space ran out fast, and Sopuli was down today for many hours because of this. I was busy with work, which didn’t help with the issue.
I bought extra disk space from Hetzner, and the founder of brand new Lemmy instance https://lemmy.world [email protected] helped to use it on the VPS. Really big thanks for him! Apologies to both new and old users, hopefully this will not happen again. Happy weekend, everyone!
Edit 03.06.2023: Now there is 80 GB of extra disk space for Sopuli, apparently 40 wasn’t enough. In addition to extra space I also bought peace of mind. Sopuli was again offline but no more!
No huh huh taas! Uusien käyttäjien tungos Sopuliin yllätti minun lisäksi myös Hetznerin VPS:n. Levytila kävi nopeasti loppuun, ja Sopuli oli tänään alhaalla monta tuntia. Asiaa eivät paljoakaan auttaneet työkiireet.
Ostin Hetzneriltä lisää levytilaa, ja ihkauuden https://lemmy.world -instanssin perustaja [email protected] auttoi minua ottamaan sen VPS:llä käyttöön. Todella paljon kiitoksia hänelle! Pahoittelut sekä uusille että vanhoille käyttäjille, toivottavasti tämä ei tule toistumaan. Hyvää viikonloppua kaikille!
Muokkaus 03.06.2023: Nyt ylimääräistä levytilaa Sopulia varten on 80 gigatavua, 40 ei ollutkaan tarpeeksi. Lisätilan lisäksi ostin myös mielenrauhaa. Sopuli oli taas alhaalla mutta ei enää!
Thank you for all that you do to stand the instance up for us. Being brand new and at risk of asking something that’s a) in the FAQ or b) offensive, do you accept donations to help with running costs?
Hmm. Hosting this instance costs me currently ~9 € per month for me and I’m employed, so I don’t think there is a need for donations to help with running costs.
Well you’re just an awesome person. If you ever need help with visual content or other things I can help! (Photo editing, video, designs, 3D modelling and so on). I can also help with other IT things if needed I’m just not much of a coder though.
Oh, thank you for the offer! At least in the visual department Sopuli doesn’t need anything new, the logo made by William Rudi (https://www.artstation.com/williamrudi) was the thing with most visual effort.
And it’s awesome, big friendly face which I’m not gonna lie is one of the main reasons I chose the server haha. The other being that it was the only one that seemed like a general-topic, EU based server. Maybe that’s something to lean on to grow the European userbase?