I’m aware that some of you have been getting some errors loading this instance. This was a configuration that I needed to be adjusted which has since been.

Do be patient if we run into other issues, I’ll be continuously working in the back-end with others to better your overall experience.

Still a lot of capacity available!

edit: For those that are interested in the configuring changes. I was using the default lemmy configuration for the nginx worker_connections value. This value needed to be raised. Shout out to @[email protected] over at lemmy.world for helping me out.

  • @TheDudeOPMA
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    141 year ago

    I figured out the storage issue last night, the instance is only at about 20% utilization so we should be good to take on a good amount more. We probably will need to do some more tweaking as we grow but for now its looking pretty good!

    • @VinS
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      71 year ago

      In Montreal, do we need to send you some hard drives?

    • @Barbarian
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      21 year ago

      Wow. 20% usage at 2.4k users is pretty damn amazing.

      • @TheDudeOPMA
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        101 year ago

        its not so much about how many registered users as it is about how many online users. The online user count is what adds fuel to the fire!

        • @flambonkscious
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          41 year ago

          Oh wow so it’s really the transactions per minute, not so much the baseline set of data?

          • @PCChipsM922U
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            11 year ago

            Yeah, basically the problem is number of calls (requests) per minute. If it’s not too many, everything works fine, if it overloads, you get 500 errors 🤷.

            • @can
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              1 year ago

              Including calls to federated communities, yes?

              • @PCChipsM922U
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                21 year ago

                I’m not sure about that, but most probably yes, since if you post on federated communities, your username pops up as [email protected] and the post is saved on your instance (from what I know).

    • @imaqtpieMA
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      11 year ago

      Good to know. Keep up the good work, you’re the man.

    • @PCChipsM922U
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      11 year ago

      Think long term. Don’t take too many new users or you’ll end up with loads of new content (mainly images). Storage is not expensive nowadays, but you can’t load new disks to the arrays indefinitely.

      • @can
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        31 year ago

        Can’t we just link to images hosted elsewhere? Like a certain site I once knew

        • @PCChipsM922U
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          21 year ago

          We can, but then you might loose history. This is long known problem on forums. Trying to cut on disk space by linking to image hosts. Sometimes the images survive, most of the time they don’t. If that doesn’t bother most of the user base, fine, but certain communities would like to keep a history of the media, since sometimes they share valuabe information, like maybe schematics or art.

          • @can
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            21 year ago

            I guess it’s a balance. I remember the imageshack purge but I also don’t want to overload the instance.

            • @PCChipsM922U
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              21 year ago

              Photobucket was next after that, not to mention countless others. Imgur has been pretty consistent over the years, but after 2 purges and hundreds of lost images (schematics in most cases) on my forum, I’m scared to death of trusting another image hosting company.

              Basically, we still allow externally hosted images on the forum, but only for temp things, like buy/sell, stuff like that. Everything else is attached on the forum.

              • @can
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                21 year ago

                Imgur is deleting all images that were uploaded without being signed into an account.

                • @PCChipsM922U
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                  21 year ago

                  Didn’t know that, thanks for the info.

                  • @can
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                    21 year ago

                    And all nsfw too iirc