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 @veroxii@lemmy.world for assisting with that.

  • Soullioness@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    To add to this, you can use exclamation point “!” To link people to communities in a way that won’t take them away from their home instance. Likewise you can use @ for users.

    Example: !eli5@lemmy.blahaj.zone Or: @Soullioness@lemmy.world

    It even auto fills when you type

    Edit: might be wrong about it linking universally.

    • andrew@radiation.partyEnglish
      15·
      2 years ago

      This absolutely is not true today, they create links that are absolute and refer to the host of the community in question.

        • Faceman🇦🇺English
          3·
          2 years ago

          for a while it will result in a lot of seemingly dead links as small communities will appear as 404s until the remote instance has synced.

          Or at least that’s what i’m seeing occasionally when I try to copy/paste the communites onto my instances /c/ URL.

      • ioNabio@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        right I was just testing it and it auto fills with absolute path using “!”. Using “@” I could only link local communities