Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca Shadow @lemmy.ca 2y ago

Lemmy.ca scheduled maintenance in 1 hour (noon PST / 3pm ET)

Hello friends!

Lemmy.ca will be undergoing scheduled maintenance from approximately 12:00 - 12:30 PT (3:00 - 3:30 ET), while we move to a more powerful server.

Happy Canada day!

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Even our Lemmy instance takes Canada as a stat holiday
All done 🤞
- wow awesome. that was quick!
Good luck, and happy Canada day!
wait the maintenance already finished?
- Yep!
  
  The Scotty Principle (also known as The Scotty Effect or The Scotty Factor) is the technique of adding extra time to your estimates when asked how long a task will take so that you appear to be a wizard when you accomplish the task quicker than you first claimed.
  
  Also gives you some buffer time if things go sideways.
  
  Thanks for your hard work!
Are there plans to bump to v0.18.1 at the same time? Only asking as my themes will need to be updated when we do.
- 0.18.1 hasn't been officially released yet, it's still an RC. We're probably going to hold until it's official. New server will still be 0.18.0.
  
  As much as I'm looking forward to the improvements in the latest Release Candidate, this is definitely the right call.
  
  Best of luck with the server migration and happy Canada Day!
- Do you have an updated copy of your theme already? If you send it ahead of time, happy to drop it in whenever we do the upgrade.
  
  This should get us going: https://pastebin.com/TxTNn8y5
  
  I'm reworking the theme a bit and trying to shape it into something that stands on its own.
Happy Canada day. And wow! The instance is extremely fast now. Thank you!
- We won't accept anything less than extremely fast!
  
  It's a big difference going from a 8vCPU 8GB RAM VPS where the actual resources were likely quite over subscribed to a dedicated server with a 6c/12t Ruby Lake Xeon, 32GB RAM, 2x 512GB NVMe drives in RAID with it's own 1Gbps Public connection. From the data we have it should be sustainable with this server until about 40-50K users.
  
  We're currently paying ~$140/month for that, and have plans in place to scale up as needed when it's needed. Over the next few days we will reopen the ability to make donations to cover the costs of operations.
  
  @TruckBC@lemmy.ca > Over the next few days we will reopen the ability to make donations to cover the costs of operations.
  
  I'll be present :)
  
  Was it CPU or memory bound prior to the upgrade? Or IO?
Happy Canada Day!
Best of luck!

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