Currently, the kbin.social instance has planned maintenance. They are busy upgrading the infrastructure to Kubernetes, using Docker containers. They said it shouldn’t take much longer than 1 hour downtime in total (if everything goes fine).

The migration will help to dynamically scale the instance, to remove the growing pains. And hopefully increase the availability (uptime) as well.

Soon additional setup configurations, best server practices and ansible playbooks will be shared with the community.

In the meanwhile you can of course use other instances (I bet you are reading this message right now from another instance).

  • @hydra
    link
    281 year ago

    I bet you are reading this message right now from another instance

    Hell yeah, reading from a Lemmy instance :D
    Fediverse sure is great

  • jelloeater - Ops MgrA
    link
    171 year ago

    I’m very curious how this goes for you folks! Good luck from us over at lemmy.world ❤️

  • @Garzak
    link
    101 year ago

    Kbin is a different code base from lemmy, right?

    • @LordXenu
      link
      English
      31 year ago

      Actually excited for this (currently rolling out a k3s environment at work). For instances like this, the in demand scaling will be clutch.

      Helm chart when?

  • @TheGoldenGod
    link
    21 year ago

    Hmmm, wonder if that’s why my upvotes are off today, it was 300 yesterday. 🤔

  • Joe B
    link
    1
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    Dam… kbin still down

      • @MCForTheBest
        link
        21 year ago

        From what I’ve seen, when it went back up for a few minutes, they changed the interface, the thumbnails were on the left side and it now shows your profile picture next to your username in the upper right. Those were the more obvious changes, of course.

        I don’t know if those changes stay permanent but it looked really nice! (That’s just as an FYI for everyone who didn’t see the site go back up)

        • melroyOPM
          link
          fedilink
          21 year ago

          These are only the cosmetic changes you see. Kbin.social was running a quite old version indeed. I try to keep my instance up-to-date every day, running the latest changes from the develop branch.

          That being said, there are a lot of other changes you are not aware of. These can be database changes, performance improvements, backend features. Or any other code change, bug fix or improvement, which isn’t always obvious to the end-user.

      • melroyOPM
        link
        fedilink
        1
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        It’s up again?

        EDIT: But I notice some image cache issues.

  • Colonel Sanders
    link
    11 year ago

    Yeah I just tried to log in at Kbin (hooray for accounts on multiple instances!) and saw that it is expected to be back up by 20:00 UTC? But…it’s currently 20:11 UTC so I’m guessing it’s taking a little longer than expected.

    • melroyOPM
      link
      fedilink
      11 year ago

      I was afraid of this… I already told Ernest to list multiple instances on the page, so people can visit other instances. But it seems to be down for maintenance a second time.