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[Done] Server will be migrated (More power!) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] zikk_transport2@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Would be awesome if you create some group chat (e.g. Discord?) and add sysadmins/devops to it. Would be more than happy to assist, especially if you have questions or need opinions.

I've been working as sre/sysadmin/devops for the past ~5 years and ~9 years of (Arch) Linux user. More than 1K Arch Wiki edits over that period of time.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Good idea!

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I might be interested in helping, DevOps engineer as well. ☺️

[–] 00Lemming@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think this is a great idea as well. I don't have quite the experience set of @ziiki_transport2 (Primary PSE) but am sure I could pitch in, in some way. Would be a good venue for brainstorming ideas as well(not that you seem to need it ;))

[–] tetha@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Feel free to ping me as well if something sets up. I currently don't have the time or personal grit to run a full instance on my own, but I know how to run linux, postgres, mysql, networks and other things. Ansible/Chef mostly as well, some puppet, some salt. Been doing this for 10 years or so on different stacks.

I'd be happy to be part of some "Lemmy-OPs-Support" group, wherever it may be to chime in with experience.

[–] OneShoeBoy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't something like a Matrix server be more in line with the 'philosophy' of the fediverse?

[–] GatoB@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Reddit is for Lemmy as Discord is for Spacebar (works with Discord) https://github.com/spacebarchat/spacebarchat