As the reddit mods gets ready for the June 12-14 black-out, there some anticipation that an influx in user base will shift over to many of the lemmy instances as user seek out a home to post their internet memes and discuss their interests.
In anticipation of this increased volume I will be growing our current instance from
- 16 CPU
- 8 GB ram
to
- 24 CPU
- 64 GB ram
This server is currently equipped with SSDs that are configured in a raid 10 array (NVMEs will come in the next gen that get deployed)
Earlier today I also configured some monitoring that I’ll be watching closely in order to have a better understanding on how the lemmy platform does under stress (for science!)
I’ll be sharing graphs and some other insights in this thread for everyone that is interested. Feel free to ask anything you might be interested in knowing more of!
EDIT: I’ll be posting and updating the graphs in this main post periodically! Last updated: 6:21AM ET June 12th
CPU - 48 hours
Memory - 48 hours
Network - 48 hours
Load Average - 48 hours
System Disk I/O - 48 hours
For the icon: How about a Satisfied Seal? Because when sh.itjust.works, you know that feel!
I love this!
Here’s a link to the SVG of the Satisfied Seal so you can tweak as needed. I’ll also post the link in the comment thread. Glad people seem to like it!
Let me know if you want me to tweak the design any and I can send an SVG as well. No copyright/usage restrictions - free to use or modify as you wish.
Thanks for the transparency
shit just works
Impressive setup! Would you be interested to have your instance recommended on the Lemmy project website?
Joined from recommended a bit less than an hour ago. Tried lemmy.ml, got rejected, went for this one cuz it was top recommended and I figured with the name and the user count the likelihood of rejection was smaller.
That would be great! I checked your link and will work on completing the steps shortly :)
Just joined you from that featured site, it just works. People are complaining about how hard it is to switch, I genuinely don’t know what the difficulty is
This is one of the easier instances to join; most of even the big ones have a manual approval step/application process that slows things down.
@nutomic@lemmy.ml that might be a good thing to note about the different instances? Or would that just tell the spammers where to spam?
Saw some dude who had spent a week on and off trying every couple of days to join and all the servers rejected him and he had given up lol. Most users are lazy fucks. If you want quality users, it’s okay to hide the goods and let the best people find them. If you want mass adoption you need to adapt to the lowest common demoninator.
Well that and you can’t even tell if you are rejected, and why. I waited over 24hours for one, and I still can’t tell if I was rejected or what. It is a nice feeling to just be able to use this without jumping through hoops
In the end I was accepted. I noticed because I tried to log in and succeeded. Now I have two accounts I guess.
let’s goo! Great instance that deserves some growth! 🚀
A little update for all of you interested. I allocated the additional resources to the VM and will post some updated graphs once they update with the new configurations.
For those who are like me and like looking at graphs here are some prior to the upgrade.
CPU - 48 hours
Memory - 48 hours
Network - 48 hours
Is this an actual bare metal machine?
No its on a vm.
Which cloud?
It’s on colocated hardware that I have in a local datacenter.
Colo - very nice.
Just discovered this place. Nice to see you guys are getting ready for the influx of users.
I’d love to see a few additional charts with the next update:
- Disk space consumed
- Subscribers
- Communities federated
My guess is that’s not available vie SNMP for Librenms. :)
I’m being a little private about the total amount of disk assigned to this instance for now. I do plan on sharing these details when I have implemented a viable solution. That being said I can tell you that with the amount of current users and activities this instance is growing by about 20GB per day in disk size.
Holy shit… You tell us when you’ll accept donations, right? This doesn’t have to be your financial responsibility.
Or do you and I just haven’t found it yet?
Not taking donations at the moment. Still need to figure out the best way to collect donations and haven’t had the chance to think about it! I will eventually
Thanks @TheDude. I work in enterprise network/systems/cloud operations as a network/security engineer. Would love to contribute monetarily or with time.
Any recommendations on VPS hosts. Thinking about creating my own.
I’ve recently migrated a forum community (vbulletin -> discourse) using a vpn by Contabo (germany hosting). Their price are incredible and while you don’t get an official SLA, it’s around 99.5%.
Check out Vultr. Super customizable. Have not gone down since I got mine (currently has 900 days uptime).
So the r/lemmymigration mod got his account unbanned from reddit, and it seems he might be willing to put together a currated and updated list of lemmy instances that are willing to host new users. Just in case that is something you would be interested in participating in, here is his comment on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/14316ai/the_guy_that_got_permanently_suspended_for/jn7k56l/
Sure lets see how far we can get this server going!
I’m starting to get random 500’s, I guess that’s a sign I need to go to bed and let the server breathe lol. Can’t wait for the updated graphs!
Looks like it was related to a setting that needed to be tuned. I just updated the graphs. Server is not on fire yet!
