What is up with the frequent little outages with ttrpg.network?

8 months ago by Enfors to c/community_meta

It seems to me that about 20% to 50% of when I click on a post here, or reload a page or something, I get an error. Is it only me, or does the server not have enough resources or something?

eerongal 11 points 8 months ago

Hey there, we swapped to a new host back in December after our old host went out of business. So far the results have been.... lackluster. I've been reporting to the host when I notice outages, which seem to be reasonably frequent unfortunately.

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Enfors 3 points 8 months ago

I see. Thanks for the info. I signed up for a small monthly contribution to help offset the hosting costs.

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eerongal 4 points 8 months ago

Certainly always appreciated. I will continue working with the host; It's worth noting that things have gotten better than we first migrated. I prepaid for a year with the host because there was a 10% discount vs monthly, so somewhat locked in at the moment (not really locked in, but ya know, sunk costs), so we'll see where we're sitting as the year goes on.

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rosswinn 0 points 8 months ago

The way these servers are federated may be the issue. As federation becomes more prevalent this may become more robust.

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Enfors 1 point 8 months ago

How would federation be the issue? I don't understand. Do you mean that the federation process somehow overloads the servers?

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rosswinn 1 point 8 months ago

you might have hit a server that was having an issue.

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Enfors 1 point 8 months ago

But I always accessing ttrpg.network. That's the server I use. So if I "hit a server" which is having issue - this is the one. It doesn't matter that content is federated in from other servers - I'm not accessing them directly, I'm just going to https://ttrpg.network/.

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MouseKeyboard 1 point 8 months ago

The servers are sleepy and need regular naps.

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