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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[-] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago

Restart is done. Enjoy!

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year 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?

[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"50k users a day"

LMAO you're funny.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

wow that was fast, nice!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Thanks Ruud!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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??