As the reddit mods gets ready for the June 12-14 black-out, there some anticipation that an influx in user base will shift over to many of the lemmy instances as user seek out a home to post their internet memes and discuss their interests.

In anticipation of this increased volume I will be growing our current instance from

  • 16 CPU
  • 8 GB ram

to

  • 24 CPU
  • 64 GB ram

This server is currently equipped with SSDs that are configured in a raid 10 array (NVMEs will come in the next gen that get deployed)

Earlier today I also configured some monitoring that I’ll be watching closely in order to have a better understanding on how the lemmy platform does under stress (for science!)

I’ll be sharing graphs and some other insights in this thread for everyone that is interested. Feel free to ask anything you might be interested in knowing more of!

EDIT: I’ll be posting and updating the graphs in this main post periodically! Last updated: 6:21AM ET June 12th

CPU - 48 hours

Memory - 48 hours

Network - 48 hours

Load Average - 48 hours

System Disk I/O - 48 hours

  • AcheronEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Just joined you from that featured site, it just works. People are complaining about how hard it is to switch, I genuinely don’t know what the difficulty is

    • planishEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      This is one of the easier instances to join; most of even the big ones have a manual approval step/application process that slows things down.

      @[email protected] that might be a good thing to note about the different instances? Or would that just tell the spammers where to spam?

      • GodEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Saw some dude who had spent a week on and off trying every couple of days to join and all the servers rejected him and he had given up lol. Most users are lazy fucks. If you want quality users, it’s okay to hide the goods and let the best people find them. If you want mass adoption you need to adapt to the lowest common demoninator.

        • roomeyEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Well that and you can’t even tell if you are rejected, and why. I waited over 24hours for one, and I still can’t tell if I was rejected or what. It is a nice feeling to just be able to use this without jumping through hoops

          • GodEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            In the end I was accepted. I noticed because I tried to log in and succeeded. Now I have two accounts I guess.

    • ToebeansEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Tbf this is the sh.it just.works instance - some of the others a more hit and miss