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c/lemmyworld · by ruud@lemmy.world · 3y

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

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

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53 Comments

ruud@lemmy.world · 126 pts · 3y (15 replies)

Restart is done. Enjoy!

Photographer@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 3y (7 replies)

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?

ruud@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 3y (5 replies)

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.

Snowyman12334567890@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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

ruud@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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.

antik@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I was thinking of starting my own server first and host it on hetzner or digitalocean because I have good experience with those and they're easy to scale. Anyway I'm here now and it's better to see this one grow :) If I can help in any way let me know.

Photographer@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y

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

jennwiththesea@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

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

beefbaby182@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
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Nevoic@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y

wow that was fast, nice!

sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

Thanks Ruud!

LemmyAccount1@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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

TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

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??

sax@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Thanks!

elf@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Thank you!

animist@lemmy.one · 1 pts · 3y

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

aranym@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 3y
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TeaHands@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 3y (4 replies)

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

art101@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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

TeaHands@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y

He's struggling to get the site to stay up under the demand but is streaming his local version here https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

bitrate@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

This is awesome and hiarious

Violet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Neat link, thanks!

jayrod@lemmy.film · 16 pts · 3y

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

CMahaff@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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!

MarPan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

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

ndr@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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

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

ruud@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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

beefbaby182@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

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

Alpagu@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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

Omgarm@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y

Also: how can people help support?

ulu_mulu@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y

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! :)

Mutisi0n@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y

Thank you for all you do

s4if@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y

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

Camar16@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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

ruud@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y

https://fediverse.observer/list (choose Lemmy in Software) or https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

314xel@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Also https://the-federation.info/platform/73#

isdfoa@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y

thanks for the hard work!

FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y

Thank you for hosting this!

Luxsidus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

Thanks for the solid maintenance Ruud!

notsorryforpartying@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

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!

MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

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

Fog@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

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

B4tid0@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

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.

ScottE@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

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

Marko@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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?

ruud@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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

Marko@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

This is weird but for some reason it worked now. 🤷‍♂️ Thanks anyway!

chrundle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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

ruud@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

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

oryx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

Thank you for the great work!

GeneralStrike@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

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

BCas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y

Thanks for your work :)

MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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

ruud@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

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

Ahmed@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

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