Apologies to all for today’s performance issues and downtime.

Logging for our lemmy instance filled our main partition and brought everything to a halt. Our lemmy instance shares hardware with blahaj.zone, and the significant growth in lemmy over the last 10 days has caused the logs to grow in size exponentially! As a result of the logs filling up the main partition, both lemmy.blahaj.zone and blahaj.zone itself went down.

We’ve freed up some space, upgraded the hardware and spun everything up again, and it looks everything is back to normal.

Apologies for the inconvenience, and welcome back to everyone!

  • spadufEnglish
    27·
    2 years ago

    Do we currently have any sort of donation page?

    • AdaOPMAEnglish
      33·
      2 years ago

      Not yet. We’re talking about if/how we want to do it though

      • ConcettaEnglish
        17·
        2 years ago

        Please let us know. Have 0 issue kicking ina a few bucks.

      • WereduckEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        I’m 100% down to kick in. Open Collective or Liberapay might be a way to avoid Patreon’s cut. But I’d definitely donate to a Patreon too!

      • EnderWi99in@kbin.social
        8·
        2 years ago

        Put something up and I’ll contribute! Could do a Patreon. Would love any partnership opportunities with some of the other API’s that were left in the dust too like Apollo and RIF.

      • Cevilia (she/they/…)English
        1·
        2 years ago

        Please do. I’d gladly sign up for it.

        Gimme that Blahaj Gold! (/joke - don’t wanna make this a them-and-us thing)

  • colorfulmoth
    23·
    2 years ago

    Nice to hear that everything is ok. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to shit out the logs to another form of long term storage? That could help during the influx of Reddit refugees.

    • AdaOPMAEnglish
      54·
      2 years ago

      Yeah absolutely. The main issue here is that this lemmy instance was spun up as a side project for me and until 10 days ago, I was basically the only user. We never planned for a reddit migration and 1400 user signups in a single week, so things are not currently configured optimally for two active instances.

      We’re aware of it though, and will get everything humming along smoothly, once we’ve had a chance to catch up :)

  • jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    Servers going down because logs fill a disk is one common Sysadmin experience, achievement unlocked! 😄

    Thanks for doing the work 👍

    • AdaOPMAEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      I mean, if we expected lemmy to grow in to an instance 3 times the size of blahaj.zone, we’d have done things differently from the start, but suffice to say, we didn’t expect Blahaj Lemmy to be anything but a bit of a sandbox for me to play with, so we made some initial choices that didn’t scale well with sudden unexpected growth :)

      • jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        And that too is an achievement unlocked! 😄

        Been there, done that, got some premature white hairs :P

  • Nolando
    12·
    2 years ago

    Good to be back, and glad to hear it was only a slow hug-of-death. Any consideration in upgrading the server version to 17.4?

    Edit: are there any alternative channels where server status is posted?

    • AdaOPMAEnglish
      29·
      2 years ago

      Any consideration in upgrading the server version to 17.4?

      Yep. That’s on the radar. We’re trying to get a kbin instance up and running too, and we’ll most likely upgrade lemmy once that has been done.

      are there any alternative channels where server status is posted?

      Not yet. A week ago, it was basically just me on this instance. Now it’s me and my 1400 closest friends :)

  • AlexTheTurtleEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    I was touching grass today so i didn’t even notice. Keep up the good work!

    • AdaOPMAEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      I don’t understand. What’s grass? :P

      • AlexTheTurtleEnglish
        16·
        2 years ago

        Green stuff in dirt that brainwashes you into thinking happy thoughts.

        • AdaOPMAEnglish
          15·
          2 years ago

          I’m suspicious…

          • JonEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            Yeah, seem unlikely.

          • AlexTheTurtleEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            i HavE to say, it reaLly works 100 Percent. This was NOT sponsored by the grass lobby.

  • CassaEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    As a reddit refugee I’m incredibly thankful for this amazing place

    Thank you Ada ❤️❤️❤️ This place is awesome!

    • AdaOPMAEnglish
      15·
      2 years ago

      The real issue is simply that this instance was set up more as experiment initially, with basically 1 user, and suddenly it’s got 1500 users. The growth caught us by surprise, and it was never set up with this growth rate in mind. Got it under control now, and we will be keeping an eye on future growth

  • Dar'ci FoxeEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Do we have a status page that can be viewed in case of an outage? Either way, appreciate all the hard work you’re doing! As someone in the tech sector, I know that’s a huge surprise right xD, I understand the difficulties of what you’re doing. I’m just glad to have such a great place to call home. If you do set up any kind of donation I know many of us are going to be willing to share to keep such a great and safe place running.

    • AdaOPMAEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      Alas, there is no status page. The consequences of a community that grew almost overnight :)

      We will probably get a donations page up soon, but we want to make sure we do that correctly if we’re going to do it.