Hey everyone,

We’ve started to hit the upper limit of what our current server is able to handle in terms of performance, and we’ve noticed its having a performance impact on the site itself.

For example, this is the CPU usage as I type this:

We’re going to make the move to a much more powerful server, as we’ve done all we can on this one to control performance.

If all goes smoothly, I predict a couple of hours downtime while we migrate the database between servers and then move the surrounding services over.

The window is going to be 5 hours, so any posts made in this time will most likely be lost, especially if we have to roll back to the old server.

Once the update is done, Cloudflare should handle most of the DNS issues but you might need to hard refresh the site.

You can keep an eye on status.lemmy.zip for more information.

Please let me know if you have questions in the comments, but I will be doing a full breakdown in the next server update in a couple of days.

Thanks

Demigodrick

  • mynamesnotrickEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    I was on the fence about donating but now you got a new donator. Thank you for running this site. I use it every day. Lemmy has pretty much replaced the old alien site for me now and I really like this instance after bouncing around between a few and even hosting my own. Wow, almost a year already (9 months~)

    • rootEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      Same boat, I get paid tomorrow and will have a few spare bucks after that, lemmy.zip deserves it!

    • DemigodrickOPMAEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Thank you! It makes me really happy to know people enjoy using the site! :)

      I barely ever go there either now too, can’t stand all the adverts.