Generally speaking, our instance has been attacked by bad actors causing the site to hang/crash/504 every 2-5 hours.
I’ve spent several days trying to pinpoint, precisely, what the server problems are.
Roughly an hour ago, there was a breakthrough that I was able to document. I won’t go into the details, however it seems that the security of the Beehaw server is better than it has ever been.
Thank you all for your patience and I hope to resolve any further issues.
This is great to hear! I hope other instances will benefit from figuring these things out.
I’ve only been a member of Lemmy for a few weeks, and I’ve joined three instances - one large, one medium, and one small. Among them, the medium-sized instance has been the most stable. I understand that building up a platform like this takes time, and I find it completely acceptable that it’s been Rocky.
I actually created multiple accounts based on a post I read in early June, which suggested it as a good idea during the initial rocky period. Personally, I don’t mind if things were always a bit challenging if the end result is a decentralized platform.
The spirit of federated social forums has truly captivated me. I wish I could contribute more to the cause, but while I have experience in pre-release software development, I’m not a programmer. Nevertheless, I truly appreciate and admire the work and effort you and others are putting into creating this space for us.
I can not thank you all enough!!
- former Apollo Ultra user
I’m very happy for you. I was an Apollo user as well. Please, keep in mind that the post that you are responding to is one year old. We now have two other professional sysadmins that are helping with Beehaw AND there are so many other professional programmers, etc that are contributing to Lemmy and other Fediverse software. All of that being said, the Fediverse is in way better hands than it has ever been.
Hah, It sorted in my “hot” feed for some reason. So in that case thank you and the other two admins for the whole year of your efforts!
You’re welcome and enjoy!
That’s good to hear!
It was incredibly frustrating and I’m elated to have resolved this, for now. Inevitably, there will be other issues to resolve in the future. Thanks again for your participation and patience.