I thought Reddit hugged yall to death again
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oh god hopefully not with what we're running now lol, we'll see on the 12th i guess but for some perspective we can probably handle traffic of three to five times the intensity of what we did today (eyeballing it) based on just the metrics i can quickly reference now (i am not our tech person)
With r/spez's AMA going the way it did I wouldn't be surprised
If the Reddit admins weren’t deleting every post and comment about Lemmy, possibly there would be an influx.
there actually was a mass influx and there still is
Holy shit that’s almost a 90deg angle lmao!
Maybe admins should set up one of these donations pages with current donations for the month/monthly operational costs, so we can help when the maintenance budget gets a bit tight? I can help build that, if need be.
Where is this from, please?
I don’t know what that other link posted is, which I got warning for when I tried to visit, but I believe Beehaw primarily uses OpenCollective, and this is overview: https://opencollective.com/beehaw
Would it be worth adding a CDN (eg cloudflare or fastly) as a preventative measure? I don't know what your traffic distribution is between static and dynamic content, but i imagine being able to offload image GETs would at least prevent you from getting surprise egress traffic bills.
CF also has an "always online" feature to serve a cached version of the site of the server is down. It won't allow people to post it comment, but it might provide a smoother user experience.
At least the turnaround was quick
Nothing makes you sweat like an accidental deployment! Looks like it worked, mark that as a win!
"Wait, why's the test server getting so much traffic all of a sudden...?"
Can't get surprise load on test servers if you test in prod!
/taps head
Damn, that's some really quick updating. Nice job.
Thanks for the recognition. We aren't a big silicon valley conglomerate, just a few people trying to make a better service for others.
It's ok Beehaw you're doing your best
They really are like oh my
Beehaw: minds its own business with a couple hundred users, nothing big
Redditors: “Hold my karma.”
Stonks!
🚀➡️🌛
Blame Reddit for the sudden spike.
pointing at the spike like Janet on the Good Place, pointing at the Jeremy Bearimy That's my cake day!
This looks really cool, did not know images in comments were supported
I'm primarily watching from the sidelines and able to test things if needed for you guys, but I can definitely say this sudden influx is such a rare opportunity for us tech folks (SWEs and sysadmins) to get a real look at what breaks when you do a real load/soak test of a service.
Post-mortems are amazing for tech knowledge, so seeing it kind of "live" is even better.
Good job folks!
Thank you guys for working to keep things efficient for the community!!
Nice to see you guys growing!
Haha I was wondering... Thanks for your hard work!
If you don't mind my asking, what hardware were y'all using beforehand? I'm looking to host my own instance, but starting as a noob. I know how to build computers but I'm trying to go further.
Beehaw is hosted on DigitalOcean, not sure what price range at this point as I know it's been upgraded recently. It's really easy to spin up one of their "droplets" and get started on a project.
I just got a 14$ droplet with 1 vCPU and 2 gigs of ram with weekly backups. I like their interface and have been happy with it overall so far. Hoping to start up my own lemmy instance for learning purposes, though a bit daunting as apparently the docker instructions are incomplete.
apparently, and I know next to nothing about this, you can use an automated option via Ansible.
I also know pretty much nothing about ansible. And while that could be a learning opportunity in itself, I'd like to challenge myself to get it running through docker. It would be one of the more complex things I've set up.
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Well I'm glad to hear it's working properly. Will give it a go soon. My only concern is whether I can use traefik with it rather than/with nginx. Can they work together?
I've gotten much more comfortable with traefik and would like to use it with my instance. I already default to using compose for my projects so no worries there.
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Cheers!
Congrats on the upgrade! Funnily enough, I decided to finally check if my registration was approved, managed to log in, and immediately wasn't able view the stickied post talking about Beehaw's vision. Glad I didn't kill the site like I thought!
Great job guys. Keep it up!
Awesome! Thanks for the transparency
Great job!
Welp, it still works, so I guess that's a win. 👍
Where do you host ? What are the specs of the server?
https://beehaw.org/post/416496
Here is a post from 8 days ago. I assume it's now outdated.
Hosted on Digital Ocean.
In that post they had just upgraded from a $12 to $18 per month instance.
I assume it's a larger instance now
How many activ users do you think can be supported?
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