Today's downtime
Apologies to all for today's performance issues and downtime.
Logging for our lemmy instance filled our main partition and brought everything to a halt. Our lemmy instance shares hardware with blahaj.zone, and the significant growth in lemmy over the last 10 days has caused the logs to grow in size exponentially! As a result of the logs filling up the main partition, both lemmy.blahaj.zone and blahaj.zone itself went down.
We've freed up some space, upgraded the hardware and spun everything up again, and it looks everything is back to normal.
Apologies for the inconvenience, and welcome back to everyone!
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Do we currently have any sort of donation page?
Not yet. We're talking about if/how we want to do it though
Please let us know. Have 0 issue kicking ina a few bucks.
I'm 100% down to kick in. Open Collective or Liberapay might be a way to avoid Patreon's cut. But I'd definitely donate to a Patreon too!
Put something up and I'll contribute! Could do a Patreon. Would love any partnership opportunities with some of the other API's that were left in the dust too like Apollo and RIF.
I would be happy to donate!
I would suggest https://opencollective.com/ as it seems to be a popular choice for similar communities when it comes to funding operations.
Or liberapay
Nice to hear that everything is ok. Wouldn't it be a good idea to shit out the logs to another form of long term storage? That could help during the influx of Reddit refugees.
Yeah absolutely. The main issue here is that this lemmy instance was spun up as a side project for me and until 10 days ago, I was basically the only user. We never planned for a reddit migration and 1400 user signups in a single week, so things are not currently configured optimally for two active instances.
We're aware of it though, and will get everything humming along smoothly, once we've had a chance to catch up :)
Thanks for letting us all come hang out with you!
Thanks so much for your efforts and transparency!
Good to be back, and glad to hear it was only a slow hug-of-death. Any consideration in upgrading the server version to 17.4?
Edit: are there any alternative channels where server status is posted?
Yep. That's on the radar. We're trying to get a kbin instance up and running too, and we'll most likely upgrade lemmy once that has been done.
Not yet. A week ago, it was basically just me on this instance. Now it's me and my 1400 closest friends :)
Thanks Ada. Lol
Hey, it's me, your best (new) friend!
Servers going down because logs fill a disk is one common Sysadmin experience, achievement unlocked! 😄
Thanks for doing the work 👍
I mean, if we expected lemmy to grow in to an instance 3 times the size of blahaj.zone, we'd have done things differently from the start, but suffice to say, we didn't expect Blahaj Lemmy to be anything but a bit of a sandbox for me to play with, so we made some initial choices that didn't scale well with sudden unexpected growth :)
And that too is an achievement unlocked! 😄
Been there, done that, got some premature white hairs :P
I was touching grass today so i didn't even notice. Keep up the good work!
I don't understand. What's grass? :P
Green stuff in dirt that brainwashes you into thinking happy thoughts.
I'm suspicious...
i HavE to say, it reaLly works 100 Percent. This was NOT sponsored by the grass lobby.
Yeah, seem unlikely.
As a reddit refugee I'm incredibly thankful for this amazing place
Thank you Ada ❤️❤️❤️ This place is awesome!
Don't apologize. Instead, thank people for their patience.
Thank you so much 🙏
Consider installing a lot rotator maybe.
The real issue is simply that this instance was set up more as experiment initially, with basically 1 user, and suddenly it's got 1500 users. The growth caught us by surprise, and it was never set up with this growth rate in mind. Got it under control now, and we will be keeping an eye on future growth
Cool; Good luck!
Do we have a status page that can be viewed in case of an outage? Either way, appreciate all the hard work you're doing! As someone in the tech sector, I know that's a huge surprise right xD, I understand the difficulties of what you're doing. I'm just glad to have such a great place to call home. If you do set up any kind of donation I know many of us are going to be willing to share to keep such a great and safe place running.
Alas, there is no status page. The consequences of a community that grew almost overnight :)
We will probably get a donations page up soon, but we want to make sure we do that correctly if we're going to do it.
Sounds like success to me.