Its now running on a dedicated server with 6 cores/12 threads and 32 gb ram. I hope this will be enough for the near future. Nevertheless, new users should still prefer to signup on other instances.
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Everyone liked that.
As a new user, thanks for being accepting of us migrants!
The server has become more responsive definitely. I thought my internet routing was so shitty that it took so long to load the site. Nice!
Please know that your work is genuinely appreciated in fascilitating the migration from Reddit to Lemmy. Your efforts will hopefully ensure a bright future for communities on this platform. Kudos @nutomic@lemmy.ml !
Thank you :)
How to migrate an account to another instance without losing anything including relationships ?
Thank you so much for all the hard work, I’m really loving it here.
⭐ lemmy star award! I agree, I’m enjoying my time jere much more than at reddit.
Youre welcome :)
Is that why I kept getting this error?
Probably hit the limit again and need a bigger server. It was migrated yesterday
same its been 6 hours. seems like using a vpn to connect works.
I was getting 502 Bad Gateway. When I pinged Lemmy.ml I got an IPV6 address. It disabled IPV6 on my local computer and now when I ping I get a IPV4 IP address it works now.
I am wondering if DNS is screwed up on the IPV6 network for Lemmy.ml.
Note. This could totally be something on my end, I really haven’t done much with IPV6 but it did solve the 502 Error so I might do the same for you.
Edit. I had a few people say turning off IPV6 on their end fixes the 502 Bad Gateway, so it looks like it has something to do with IPV6.
You are right, I forgot to configure IPv6. Will be fixed shortly.
Edit: Should be fixed now.
Thanks for mentioning the IPv6, I’ve been banging my head all day trying to figure out why I kept getting the 502 yet no one was complaining anywhere and isitdown was showing the server as Up.
I forces my DNS to resolve only IPv4 for lemmy.ml and now I can use it.
My suspicion is that nginx is misconfigured and not listening via IPv6. Or maybe the AAAA record is pointing to the wrong IPv6 address.
@nutomic@lemmy.ml Thanks for upgrading the server!
Is it possible to horizontally scale these instances instead of just upping the machine hardware? What are the main performance bottlenecks typically?
Have we explored the possibility of “porting” the larger communities to other instances? It seems that many of us simply wish to subscribe to the largest (insert type of community here) and can do so from various home instances. Might lower demand on this specific instance at the very least.
Something isn’t working with ipv6, on my phone network I get nginx 502 but on wifi it works
It’s giving me a 502 error on my computer as well but is working on my phone using WiFi.
@v_krishna @nutomic not working on my phone either. Same error
Just started supporting this instance on liberapay, if other follow you’ll hopefully be able to upgrade the potato soon !
Thank you for your hard work! Although I kinda foresee for the future if Lemmy really would become the new “reddit” with such servers and millions of users, wouldn’t that also rise the server costs and ultimately make the hosts dependent on asking money for it, maybe by a paywall or by ads? I think to make this community really be “free” without any host responsible for spending a huge amount of money for servers, the best solution would be to make the actual “servers” be a p2p cluster. Unfortunately I’m not quite sure how to realize that without losing a huge fraction of the model if a lot of nodes (i.e., the actual users) are offline. Sorry, I’m just brainstorming.
I would love a social network powered by the users that are using it. Maybe also running something like serverless functions on the client devices.
You might want to check the Earthstar project: https://earthstar-project.org/ They are working on that. Right now, it’s super early; they are building the foundations. Peer-to-peer is unfortunately much more difficult to code then servers, because less people have built the building-blocks required, and because mobile phones are actively making it hard to run peer-to-peer apps.
Thanks for your hard work, I really can tell the difference. Now lemmy.ml is much more responsive than before
Hi @nutomic@lemmy.ml. Thanks for the upgrade and for your work.
May I ask about the resources utilization now? CPU, RAM, storage? Thanks!
Load average is around 4, ram and storage are also rather low. So there are plenty of reserves for now.
If that’s the load average now on a 6c/12t system with 32GB, just how bad was the previous server?!?
Was this website running on a Raspberry Pi or something?
