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 @[email protected] for assisting with that.

  • @OvercastEnglish
    10•1 year ago

    Sounds like Lemmy is quite power hungry. What are the specs of the new server? Can Lemmy be split into its services (e.g pictures on a different servers?)

    • krdoEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Pictures is already it’s own service in the docker compose file. I don’t know how easy it would be to move it to a different server though, but I suspect it can be done with a bit of fidling with the configuration.

      • krdoEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Also, it should be fairly easy to host the postgres on separate hardware.