Hello everyone,
I made a long overdue upgrade to the CPU and memory of the server by doubling both. Hope that helps some of the slow load times. I sometimes forget how many active users this server has and that number has only grown in the past year.
Thanks!
27 Comments
GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social · 18 pts · 1y
Not perfect, but it does seem much faster and MUCH more stable. Load times are less than 10s compared to ~30s before and I haven't had a time out error yet. That's using Voyager as a frontend app and download speeds of 227Mbps for reference. Thanks for what you do seahorse! Hope you never feel underappreciated.
Pandantic@midwest.social · 15 pts · 1y
Just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work and commitment to this server. I love it here, and I appreciate you!
stinerman@midwest.social · 12 pts · 1y
Yes, I can definitely tell! Thanks @seahorse@midwest.social!
CPMSP@midwest.social · 12 pts · 1y
You are neat and we like you @seahorse@midwest.social.
Thank you for hosting us!
Neuromancer49@midwest.social · 10 pts · 1y
Night and day difference for me, thanks for upgrading!
st3ph3n@midwest.social · 8 pts · 1y
Huzzah!
PraiseTheSoup@midwest.social · 7 pts · 1y
Thank you!
Ascrod@midwest.social · 5 pts · 1y
Thank you for your continued effort!
JakenVeina@midwest.social · 5 pts · 1y
I guess that was the downtime overnight? Glad to see an active admin team. Sounds like it's time for me to setup a support subscription. Is there a Patreon account, or similar?
seahorse@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
No, wasn't overnight. Not sure what that was about but CPU was at 100% for most of it. That's when I decided to upgrade the resources.
There's a liberapay link in the sidebar if you're so inclined.
JakenVeina@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y
The sidebar for the whole instance? I think that's jusy not visible anywhere, in Jerboa. I'll have to look for it at my desktop, later.
seahorse@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
You can get to it on Jerboa by tapping the 3 vertical dots in the upper right corner and going to "site info". Either way, this is the link on it: https://liberapay.com/seahorse
JakenVeina@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y
Sure enough, there it is.
PentastarM@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
❤️❤️❤️
VoidJuiceConcentrate@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
it's working much better now, thank you!!
figjam@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
Thank you for all you do.
geoff@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
Thanks very much! Curious what the specs are at this point, if you’re willing to share!
seahorse@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y
Nothing terribly impressive. 4 vCPUs and 8 GB RAM on a 120 GB ssd.
JakenVeina@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y
Boy 120GB doesn't seem like much. Do photo uploads go somewhere else, perhaps?
seahorse@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y
Yeah there's object storage I use for photos.
Fuckwit_McBumCrumble@midwest.social · 1 pts · 1y
What CPUs are they? Like a modern Epyc, or a crusty 20 year old box like some of our appsrvs at work?
I guess it doesn’t need much for essentially database and the base of the website. I always figured it would need more. Any plans on going physical?
seahorse@midwest.social · 1 pts · 1y
Not sure. Whatever digital ocean runs
trubedour@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y
Just chiming in with another thank you for this as well as everything else you do! The difference is super noticeable, and makes the experience a lot better.
cymor@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y
Thank you!
ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social · 1 pts · 354d
Hi there! first of all thanks for all your work- i love this instance- and second, sorry if this is the wrong place, i literally could not figure out where else to ask- but is it normal that i'm experiencing ~30 second or more load time when trying to access any page on the instance? i don't use an app, just browse thru firefox on my phone. if this is expected, what kinda infrastructure do we need to improve it / where can i donate? if not, what am i doing wrong? i love being here but sometimes the wait time makes it inaccessible for my doomscrolling.
seahorse@midwest.social · 2 pts · 354d
Strange. I doubled the cpu not long ago. I'll look into it more. Not sure what could be going on. Thanks for reaching out.
seahorse@midwest.social · 2 pts · 354d
I suggest giving Jerboa a shot, which is the Lemmy android app. I know there are others for iPhone as well.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y