Hello there friendly users!

Update 3:50pm CEST
The container has been moved, most work on the new host has been completed. There are some permanent data errors on the original storage pool, but it does not like it affected this linux container. Please give DNS and federation a moment.

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Some (but only a few) of you have experienced an outage today around 5-8am CEST. This – as far as my current findings go – happened due to a filesystem panic. So far, i only experienced such a thing on virtual servers with a certain amount of load.

Even tho relatively speaking, i didn’t feel like there was much to worry about with the current setup and its utilization, i feel like when looking at a potential second wave from Reddit, this instance should be prepared – so i just did a thing:

What we are moving to

We will be moving from a Netcup RS 4000 G9.5 KVM with 32 GB memory and 10 dedicated EPYC cores, (that was meant for various smaller tchncs services such as XMPP, Email, Clouds, Websites and stuff and lots of headroom), to a Hetzner serverauction baremetal thing with an Intel Core i7-7700, 2x SSD M.2 NVMe 512 GB, 64 GB DDR4 Mem, 1 Gbit Networking in Finland.

I plan to migrate today as soon as the thing is ready and configured. There will be a downtime of up to 1 hour.

Lemmy will share its seat on the machine with the tiny Calckey instance that was deployed around the same time.

Increased monthly cost: around 40 EUR

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Note on the thing Meta is developing with ActivityPub federation support:
I am not a friend of Meta and am happy to keep it out of my life an off of my servers. However there are lots of rumors and barely any confirmed informations around the project. I will act accordingly once more is known. I also won’t make any exceptions in terms of enforcing our rules. However i won’t participate in signature lists for pre-blocking everything Meta and run around in circles, screaming in panic.