We’ll give the upgrade new try tomorrow. I’ve had some good input from admins of other instances, which are also gonna help troubleshoot during/after the upgrade.

Also there are newer RC versions with fixed issues.

Be aware that might we need to rollback again, posts posted between the upgrade and the rollback will be lost.

We see a huge rise in new user signups (duh… it’s July 1st) which also stresses the server. Let’s hope the improvements in 0.18.1 will also help with that.

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die
    3•1 year ago

    Servers are being hammered hard right now lol, but it should calm down soon, you’ll see it’s pretty stable outside of reddit hugs of death :D

    • @douglasg14b
      1•1 year ago

      It’ll calm down as in more resources are provisioned or redditors looking to ditch reddit give up and go back to reddit because of stability issues, thus lowering use count closer to normal?

      Because the later isn’t ideal 😬

      I have business fiber and my own compute, can nodes be ran distributed? I’d be happy to spin up VMs to run a node service. Or does this rely on a single central host?

      • Admin
        2•1 year ago

        You can host your own instance, which will be federated with this one by default. Every little bit helps.

        • @douglasg14b
          2•1 year ago

          Can you tell me more?

          Can we have distributed compute? Is there some official process to be federated with lemmy.world to provide resources? How do upgrades work? I assume some sort of consensus algorithm is in use (ie. Raft)?

          • Ulu-Mulu-no-dieEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            It’s not distributed computing, they are different servers independent from each other but that replicate data among them because they use the same communication protocol (ActivityPub), that’s what federation does.