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[Done] Server will be migrated (More power!) (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ruud to c/lemmyworld

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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 @[email protected] for assisting with that.

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[–] MasterBlaster 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, when I search for a community, the results span servers, so I can find and join wherever. It is possible the search feature only includes servers previously referenced, I don't know.

[–] ndr 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If no one has joined that community before you need to search it with the format !community@instance

[–] code 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So how to we solve this? Create a user on .ml and subscribe to the .world community? Or is it enough to just search it up once to it "sees" the other community?

I can't seem to get [email protected] to work from lemmy.ml either so 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] ndr 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You only need one account on one instance (except if you’re trying to access something that’s blocked).

Just to confirm, you’re putting that in the search bar? Make sure to wait a few seconds; it might say “no results” at first before it finds it.

Once a person does that and joins, everyone else on lemmy.ml should be able to find mycommunity

[–] code 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I tried looking up this community as well from a couple of different instances and it's not showing up.

[–] ndr 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looking up lemmyworld works for me, but norge doesn’t. I have no idea then. Maybe the servers are overloaded now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

undefined> norge

was there a solution to norge? I'm trying to subscribe to it from SDF but I can't find it

[–] Kuma 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hace you tried with the full url? https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyworld that have worked for me every time. But sometimes is it a bit slower

[–] code 1 points 2 years ago

That's not working either it seems.

[–] ndr 1 points 2 years ago

also everything is so damn slow right now, it's taking me 5 minutes to reply to you

[–] ndr 2 points 2 years ago

I tried to look for norge on lemmy.ml and it’s not showing up for me either

Maybe it hasn’t synced yet? I don’t know, try later I guess 🫤