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!
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 @[email protected] !
Thank you :)
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!
I just want to say, you all are doing a great job. Maybe I don’t fully understand it yet, but I have created some communities on the lemmy.ml instance and I don’t really want to move away. Is there anything I can or should do? I think that I’m currently locked in here.
Dont worry existing users are fine. But we would have problems if lots of new users suddenly joined.
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.
it works, thanks
Working, your awesome!!
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.
@[email protected] Thanks for upgrading the server!
My money is on the AAAA record because “it is always DNS”.
I’m also unable to connect with IPV6 enabled getting the 502 error, but able to connect with it disabled
same its been 6 hours. seems like using a vpn to connect works.
it seems this new server is not configured to work with iCloud’s Private Relay service as the last one was
how to configure servers to work with private relay: https://developer.apple.com/support/prepare-your-network-for-icloud-private-relay/
Me and others are getting that issue without that. Seems to be related to its IPV6 configuration or AAAA record since disabling IPV6 seems to make lemmy.ml work
how interesting…
Just started supporting this instance on liberapay, if other follow you’ll hopefully be able to upgrade the potato soon !
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 :)
How to migrate an account to another instance without losing anything including relationships ?
I was wondering the same thing. I initially created an account on some obscure instance because I didn’t fully understand what I was doing. I just abandoned it and set up a new one on lemmy world. I think I’m getting the hang of it now. I’m curious to see how Lemmy grows and matures over time. There is still a learning curve that will keep some people away.
This is what I need to know. I also have an account on Lemmy world as a backup
Hi @[email protected]. 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?
Was running on a potato
Thanks. Thinking about hosting a Czech instance for lemmy, that’s why I am asking
Is it possible to horizontally scale these instances instead of just upping the machine hardware? What are the main performance bottlenecks typically?
Hey, what do you mean by “scale horizontally”? There are multiple approaches to tackle this.
- Have multiple nodes/pods for the same instance and run them on a cloud-like service provider
- have RO-instances to handle to read-load
- share/merge bigger communities/subs over multiple instances
- …
All of these requiere most likely a major rewrite/change of Lemmy server software I guess. They are already addressed as issues/feature requests on github In my opinion the first option would fit the most.
My comment was without knowing the topology of Lemmy at all, but my thoughts were initially that vertically scaling can have diminishing returns past a certain threshold. Since the servers seem to be struggling I’m wondering if that has been surpassed and if it’s more cost-effective and reliable to scale this way? But if the application isn’t written in that way, or the underlying data store isn’t equipped for multiple instances then fair enough, I’d be interested as to why especially if Lemmy grows. I’ll take a look at open issues and educate myself a bit more though.
I’m still amazed at how light-weight lemmy is.
Rust magic
Inferno is pretty slick too
Yeah I mean a single dedicated server doesn’t sound like much, and yet performance is much better than before!
And it’s not even a super beefy one!
kbin.social uses a CCX41 with 16 virtual cores (I think 8 of those are hyperthreaded though) and 64gb of ram for its ~25k users
Congrats on the smooth migration!
Thanks for your hard work, I really can tell the difference. Now lemmy.ml is much more responsive than before
