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In preparation for the Reddit June 12-14 Black-out (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TheDude@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works
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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!

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[–] ArtisanalRuntime@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the icon: How about a Satisfied Seal? Because when sh.itjust.works, you know that feel! satisfied_seal

[–] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love this!

[–] ArtisanalRuntime@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Here’s a link to the SVG of the Satisfied Seal so you can tweak as needed. I’ll also post the link in the comment thread. Glad people seem to like it!

https://svgshare.com/s/u8T

[–] ArtisanalRuntime@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Let me know if you want me to tweak the design any and I can send an SVG as well. No copyright/usage restrictions - free to use or modify as you wish.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Impressive setup! Would you be interested to have your instance recommended on the Lemmy project website?

https://lemmy.ml/post/1171717

[–] httpjames@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the transparency

[–] pigeonholedpoetry@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any recommendations on VPS hosts. Thinking about creating my own.

[–] donut@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Check out Vultr. Super customizable. Have not gone down since I got mine (currently has 900 days uptime).

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this an actual bare metal machine?

[–] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No its on a vm.

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which cloud?

[–] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

It's on colocated hardware that I have in a local datacenter.

[–] manifex@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks @TheDude. I work in enterprise network/systems/cloud operations as a network/security engineer. Would love to contribute monetarily or with time.

[–] carrot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

shit just works

[–] Condodog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Just discovered this place. Nice to see you guys are getting ready for the influx of users.

[–] poVoq 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The monitoring is with Prometheus / Grafana? Can you share your setup?

[–] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Prometheus /grafana would be great but I'm using an existing librenms setup via snmp probing

[–] phase_change@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d love to see a few additional charts with the next update:

  • Disk space consumed
  • Subscribers
  • Communities federated

My guess is that’s not available vie SNMP for Librenms. :)

[–] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm being a little private about the total amount of disk assigned to this instance for now. I do plan on sharing these details when I have implemented a viable solution. That being said I can tell you that with the amount of current users and activities this instance is growing by about 20GB per day in disk size.

[–] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit... You tell us when you'll accept donations, right? This doesn't have to be your financial responsibility.

Or do you and I just haven't found it yet?

[–] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Not taking donations at the moment. Still need to figure out the best way to collect donations and haven't had the chance to think about it! I will eventually