we accidentally did the upgrade just now, which is what you just experienced. anyways we’re at like double the power and processing, and three times the storage we were previously at so yeah hopefully that’ll be good. anyways i guess i’ll leave this post stickied until i go to sleep in like an hour
- Arystique ( @Arystique@beehaw.org ) English41•1 year ago
I thought Reddit hugged yall to death again
oh god hopefully not with what we’re running now lol, we’ll see on the 12th i guess but for some perspective we can probably handle traffic of three to five times the intensity of what we did today (eyeballing it) based on just the metrics i can quickly reference now (i am not our tech person)
- Arystique ( @Arystique@beehaw.org ) English24•1 year ago
With r/spez’s AMA going the way it did I wouldn’t be surprised
- GuyDudeman ( @GuyDudeman@beehaw.org ) English23•1 year ago
If the Reddit admins weren’t deleting every post and comment about Lemmy, possibly there would be an influx.
- Arystique ( @Arystique@beehaw.org ) English20•1 year ago
there actually was a mass influx and there still is
- Satouru ( @satouru@beehaw.org ) English11•1 year ago
Holy shit that’s almost a 90deg angle lmao!
Maybe admins should set up one of these donations pages with current donations for the month/monthly operational costs, so we can help when the maintenance budget gets a bit tight? I can help build that, if need be.
- Rentlar ( @Rentlar@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Here is a place you can contribute directly to the Beehaw instace.
It’s linked in the sidebar.
- Camus ( @V4uban@beehaw.org ) English9•1 year ago
Where is this from, please?
- Arystique ( @Arystique@beehaw.org ) English11•1 year ago
https://the-federation.info/node/details/25274 here ya go mate
- Camus ( @V4uban@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
Thank you mate
- zark ( @zark@beehaw.org ) English7•1 year ago
I don’t know what that other link posted is, which I got warning for when I tried to visit, but I believe Beehaw primarily uses OpenCollective, and this is overview: https://opencollective.com/beehaw
- lemmyng ( @lemmyng@beehaw.org ) English18•1 year ago
Would it be worth adding a CDN (eg cloudflare or fastly) as a preventative measure? I don’t know what your traffic distribution is between static and dynamic content, but i imagine being able to offload image GETs would at least prevent you from getting surprise egress traffic bills.
CF also has an “always online” feature to serve a cached version of the site of the server is down. It won’t allow people to post it comment, but it might provide a smoother user experience.
- Sc2Pirate ( @Sc2Pirate@beehaw.org ) English24•1 year ago
Nothing makes you sweat like an accidental deployment! Looks like it worked, mark that as a win!
- FaceDeer ( @FaceDeer@kbin.social ) 18•1 year ago
“Wait, why’s the test server getting so much traffic all of a sudden…?”
- lemmyng ( @lemmyng@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year ago
Can’t get surprise load on test servers if you test in prod!
/taps head
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English24•1 year ago
At least the turnaround was quick
- MilliaStrange ( @MilliaStrange@beehaw.org ) English20•1 year ago
It’s ok Beehaw you’re doing your best
- Arystique ( @Arystique@beehaw.org ) English24•1 year ago
They really are like oh my
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English9•1 year ago
Beehaw: minds its own business with a couple hundred users, nothing big
Redditors: “Hold my karma.”
- iMach ( @imach@beehaw.org ) English9•1 year ago
Stonks!
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
🚀➡️🌛
- Cocoa6790 ( @Cocoa6790@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
Blame Reddit for the sudden spike.
- Thrashy ( @Thrashy@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
pointing at the spike like Janet on the Good Place, pointing at the Jeremy Bearimy That’s my cake day!
- Heimchen ( @Heimchen@lemmy.ml ) English5•1 year ago
This looks really cool, did not know images in comments were supported
- anthoniix ( @anthoniix@beehaw.org ) English19•1 year ago
Damn, that’s some really quick updating. Nice job.
- PenguinCoder ( @Penguincoder@beehaw.org ) English22•1 year ago
Thanks for the recognition. We aren’t a big silicon valley conglomerate, just a few people trying to make a better service for others.
- darkfoe ( @darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party ) English17•1 year ago
I’m primarily watching from the sidelines and able to test things if needed for you guys, but I can definitely say this sudden influx is such a rare opportunity for us tech folks (SWEs and sysadmins) to get a real look at what breaks when you do a real load/soak test of a service.
Post-mortems are amazing for tech knowledge, so seeing it kind of “live” is even better.
Good job folks!
- literallyacat ( @literallyacat@beehaw.org ) English15•1 year ago
Thank you guys for working to keep things efficient for the community!!
- lixus98 ( @lixus98@kbin.social ) 13•1 year ago
Nice to see you guys growing!
- Witch ( @Witch@beehaw.org ) English11•1 year ago
Haha I was wondering… Thanks for your hard work!
- DarbyDear ( @DarbyDear@beehaw.org ) English10•1 year ago
Congrats on the upgrade! Funnily enough, I decided to finally check if my registration was approved, managed to log in, and immediately wasn’t able view the stickied post talking about Beehaw’s vision. Glad I didn’t kill the site like I thought!
- M.Cauthon ( @ron3ats@lemmy.world ) English10•1 year ago
If you don’t mind my asking, what hardware were y’all using beforehand? I’m looking to host my own instance, but starting as a noob. I know how to build computers but I’m trying to go further.
- luckless ( @luckless@beehaw.org ) English11•1 year ago
Beehaw is hosted on DigitalOcean, not sure what price range at this point as I know it’s been upgraded recently. It’s really easy to spin up one of their “droplets” and get started on a project.
I just got a 14$ droplet with 1 vCPU and 2 gigs of ram with weekly backups. I like their interface and have been happy with it overall so far. Hoping to start up my own lemmy instance for learning purposes, though a bit daunting as apparently the docker instructions are incomplete.
- BackOnMyBS ( @BackOnMyBS@kbin.social ) 5•1 year ago
apparently, and I know next to nothing about this, you can use an automated option via Ansible.
- luckless ( @luckless@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
I also know pretty much nothing about ansible. And while that could be a learning opportunity in itself, I’d like to challenge myself to get it running through docker. It would be one of the more complex things I’ve set up.
- BackOnMyBS ( @BackOnMyBS@kbin.social ) 1•1 year ago
Sounds pretty fun! I have a spare laptop running Linux Mint. I would like to try running my own instance and sharing it with a few users. Below are the specs. Do you think it will be powerful enough, and if so, how many users would it be able to handle?
Dell Inspiron 15-5000
CPU: Intel Core i5-5200U, 2 cores, 4 threads
RAM: 8GB
Storage: SanDisk SSD Plus 1TB- luckless ( @luckless@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
This is really just a guess, but I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to run an instance with a handful of users on that machine. Just don’t expect too much.
- Skull giver ( @skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ) English5•7 months ago
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- luckless ( @luckless@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Well I’m glad to hear it’s working properly. Will give it a go soon. My only concern is whether I can use traefik with it rather than/with nginx. Can they work together?
I’ve gotten much more comfortable with traefik and would like to use it with my instance. I already default to using compose for my projects so no worries there.
- HandOfKarma ( @HandOfKarma@kbin.social ) 7•1 year ago
Great job guys. Keep it up!
- FriendlyFusion ( @FriendlyFusion@beehaw.org ) English7•1 year ago
Awesome! Thanks for the transparency
- LemmyAtem ( @LemmyAtem@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
Great job!
- ultraHQ ( @ultraHQ@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Where do you host ? What are the specs of the server?
- towerful ( @towerful@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
https://beehaw.org/post/416496
Here is a post from 8 days ago. I assume it’s now outdated.
Hosted on Digital Ocean.
In that post they had just upgraded from a $12 to $18 per month instance.
I assume it’s a larger instance now