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[Done] Restarting Lemmy.world at 17:00 CET for server upgrade

3 years ago by Ruud to c/lemmyworld

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Apparently in some parts of the world it's already Monday June 12th. I see registrations going up.

This results in the server CPU staying around 70% even spiking over 90%. So I will upgrade the VPS from 4cpu/16GB to 8cpu/32GB.

Expect a few minutes downtime at 17:00 CET

ruud 126 points 3 years ago

Restart is done. Enjoy!

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Photographer 22 points 3 years ago

What is the plan when the new VPS gets overloaded in a few hours? What happens if this instance becomes popular and has 50k users a day?

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ruud 54 points 3 years ago

Then I move it to a dedicated server, like I did with mastodon.world which has 164k users and had over 100k active users at it's peak.

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Snowyman12334567890 12 points 3 years ago

How is the funding? Do you need help? Will this be a long term project?

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ruud 11 points 3 years ago

Funding is still OK but we might need to upgrade the server again soon. Links for funding are on the homepage sidebar. I don't quit this server as long as it's used. If I ever get tired of it I hand it over.

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Photographer 10 points 3 years ago

Awesome :) glad to see this instance has some staying power!

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jennwiththesea 7 points 3 years ago

Oh, you know what you're doing, then! Awesome.

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beefbaby182 0 points 3 years ago

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Nevoic 14 points 3 years ago

wow that was fast, nice!

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LemmyAccount1 7 points 3 years ago

It's still slow af. takes me 45 seconds to save edit to this post What's the plan to fund scaling? You should probably have some burstable resources set up with a hyperscaler cloud.

Some world event will happen and this site will break down faster than toilet paper in the rain

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TheBig2023Meltdown 6 points 3 years ago

this site instance

Ftfy ;)

You got a point though, just made an account myself and I'm not used to looking at a spinning icon for 5 seconds just to post a comment. I dont even think my last two comments even posted lol.. could be the app I'm using. Let's hope this one posts and doesn't timeout??

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sanguinepar 7 points 3 years ago

Thanks Ruud!

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sax 5 points 3 years ago

Thanks!

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elf 4 points 3 years ago

Thank you!

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animist 1 point 3 years ago

Just want to say thank you for your hard work and dedication

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aranym 31 points 3 years ago

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TeaHands 30 points 3 years ago

The exodus has definitely begun. For anyone who hasn't seen it you can literally watch Reddit go dark one sub at a time at https://reddark.untone.uk

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bitrate 7 points 3 years ago

This is awesome and hiarious

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art101 7 points 3 years ago

Been watching this thinking "WOW the Reddit-ocalypse is happening!!!" Then the site went down. 698 sites had went dark when I last checked.

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TeaHands 13 points 3 years ago

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Violet 4 points 3 years ago

Neat link, thanks!

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CMahaff 16 points 3 years ago

Your professionalism and experience is part of why I decided to make this my "home" instance. Thanks for all the work keeping this up and stable over the last few days!

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MarPan 1 point 3 years ago

Man, I just ended up here by pure chance, I guess I'm lucky :)

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jayrod 16 points 3 years ago

Congrats on all the registrations! Glad to see this catching on. :)

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ndr 15 points 3 years ago

Am I tripping or is everything a bit snappier now? ^^

Edit: on the other hand, commenting does still take quite a bit šŸ« 

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ruud 11 points 3 years ago

Yeah I can't yet find the cause of that, it's annoying the *** out of me

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beefbaby182 5 points 3 years ago

Oh good. I thought it was just me and I was taking crazy pills.

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Alpagu 14 points 3 years ago

Do you pay for the server, how much do you pay monthly?

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Omgarm 11 points 3 years ago

Also: how can people help support?

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ulu_mulu 11 points 3 years ago

Yeah it's June 12th already in New Zealand and probably a few other countries, I've seen a few saying they were shutting down their subreddits because of that.

For anyone interested to see subs while they shutdown: https://reddark.untone.uk/

p.s. Thank you for your work! :)

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Mutisi0n 10 points 3 years ago

Thank you for all you do

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Camar16 9 points 3 years ago

Is there a web site that we can see the status of the servers/instances, number of users, stuff like that. It'll be an interesting couple of days with all the new communities going up. Good luck

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ruud 11 points 3 years ago

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314xel 5 points 3 years ago

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s4if 9 points 3 years ago

Hi, new user here.. Thanks for hosting this. I hope the server wouldn't blow up due to users spike.. cheers!

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isdfoa 8 points 3 years ago

thanks for the hard work!

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FartsWithAnAccent 8 points 3 years ago

Thank you for hosting this!

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notsorryforpartying 6 points 3 years ago

I did my very first account login right as this happened and was very confused haha. But now working smoothly and excited to figure this all out!

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Luxsidus 6 points 3 years ago

Thanks for the solid maintenance Ruud!

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MiddleWeigh 5 points 3 years ago

Thanks! Enjoying my stay so far for what it's worth.

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Fog 5 points 3 years ago

Wow, already implementing improvements! Looking forward to a long term future here!

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B4tid0 5 points 3 years ago

Thanks for the headups! I have being using this intance for a couple of hours. Is great! Hope things go well and the bot issues is not too bad.

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GeneralStrike 4 points 3 years ago

Thank you for this! Brand new to Lemmy but really excited to see it grow.

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oryx 4 points 3 years ago

Thank you for the great work!

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ScottE 4 points 3 years ago

Thanks for your work in keeping this server up and available - should be an interesting ride for the next few days. :-)

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Marko 4 points 3 years ago

I can't change my password, it just loads and never finishes. Anything you can fix or we have to wait for the Lemmy devs to fix it?

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ruud 8 points 3 years ago

For me it works? Perhaps you entered the wrong old password? Lemmy isn't great at displaying error messages yet...

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Marko 4 points 3 years ago

This is weird but for some reason it worked now. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø Thanks anyway!

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chrundle 4 points 3 years ago

Since registrations will probably keep going up for a while, can users donate to keep the server running?

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ruud 7 points 3 years ago

Yes they sure can! See the sidebar of the homepage for donation platforms we use. Thanks!

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MrPoopyButthole 3 points 3 years ago

Is this perhaps why making new communities stopped working the last 30mins?

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ruud 6 points 3 years ago

No that should just work. Please DM me a screenshot of what you're trying to create.

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BCas 3 points 3 years ago

Thanks for your work :)

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Ahmed 2 points 3 years ago

That explains why I wasn't able to post few minutes ago! Thanks a lot

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