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Discussion about the aussie.zone instance itself

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Changelog

2024.10.25 - migrated pict-rs image store to its built in object storage
2024.10.24 - banned lemmit.online instance, only used to spam content from reddit into Lemmy. If you want that content, use reddit directly.
2024.10.23 - DB config changes, spun up worker instances of lemmy service, re-enabled "ProxyAllImages"
2024.10.12 - disabled the "ProxyAllImages" configuration to try and resolve the long running image issues
2024.06.26 - upgraded lemmy to 0.19.5
2024.06.09 - upgraded lemmy to 0.19.4, postgres to 16, pict-rs to 0.5.15
2024.01.23 - upgraded lemmy to 0.19.3
2024.01.11 - upgraded lemmy to 0.19.2
2023.12.21 - upgraded lemmy to 0.19.1
2023.12.17 - upgraded lemmy to 0.19.0
2023.10.12 - upgrade VPS to 160GB, other specs unchanged
2023.08.9 - upgraded lemmy and lemmy-ui to 0.18.4
2023.07.29 - upgraded lemmy and lemmy-ui to 0.18.3
2023.07.11 - upgraded lemmy and lemmy-ui to 0.18.2
2023.07.10 - upgraded lemmy-ui to 0.18.2-rc.1 to mitigate XSS vulnerability
2023.07.10 - VPS upgraded to 8GB RAM (required to upgrade storage, needed anyway.. only $2pm)
2023.07.08 - upgraded lemmy and lemmy-ui 0.18.1 πŸŽ‰
2023.07.06 - upgraded lemmy to 0.18.1-rc.10 and lemmy-ui 0.18.1-rc.11
2023.07.04 - upgraded lemmy-ui to 0.18.1-rc.10
2023.07.04 - upgraded lemmy and lemmy-ui to 0.18.1-rc.9
2023.07.03 - upgraded Lemmy to 0.18.1-rc.4 and lemmy-ui 0.18-rc.7
2023.06.28 - VPS upgraded from 2 to 4 vCPU, other specs the same.
2023.06.24 - upgraded Lemmy to 0.18.0
2023.06.23 - upgraded Lemmy to 0.18.0-rc.6
2023.06.13 - upgraded Lemmy to 0.17.4. Increased federation workers and reduced logging storage at the same time.
2023.06.10 - VPS storage upgraded from 40GB to 80GB, other specs the same.
2023.06.09 - VPS upgraded to 4GB RAM, 2 vCPU, other specs the same.
2023.06.08 - aussie.zone created, running Lemmy 0.17.3. OVH VPS was 2GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 40GB NVME

Nerd Stuff

The aussie.zone server is currently an OVH VPS in Sydney:
8GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 160GB NVME storage

Images are stored in an object store bucket on Wasabi, also in Sydney.

I post updates ~~every week or so~~ randomly with current server resource graphs:
Nerd update 20/4/24
Nerd update 2/9/23
Nerd update 13/8/23
Nerd update 5/8/23
Nerd update 29/7/23
Nerd update 22/7/23
Nerd update 15/7/23
Nerd update 7/7/23
Nerd update 30/6/23

If you have any questions, please post.

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[–] lodion@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have observed a few times recently where CPU usage was high, and resulted in very brief periods of slow performance on the site. This appears to have been due to DB queries maxing out 1 core. Have just upgraded from 2 to 4 vCPU which should mitigate this for now.

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this bring the costings above the previously mentioned $43/pm

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, I updated my other post with the increased VPS cost when it was done.

[–] briongloid@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I'm a fan of the OP tag, for the post creator.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for taking good care of us. I've noticed some of the other servers are crawling, but aussie.zone is always nice & fast πŸ˜ƒ

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

Oh we've had our own issues.. but they've been improving with each lemmy upgrade πŸ™‚

[–] Railison@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Noticed the server wasn’t reachable this morning (~06:30), checking to see if there was a scheduled outage or maybe it was my end haha

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

AEST? That would be the daily server snapshot. I'll see if I can bring it forward, trouble is there are daily Lemmy DB tasks etc running earlier that I don't want to disrupt .

I'll see what can be done ..

[–] Railison@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah AEDT. I don’t mind it being unreachable for a little bit if it’s for maintenance!

[–] No1@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago

Caught me off guard this am too. Mind you, only notice because the site is so damn reliable πŸ‘

[–] No1@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Context back working again with 0.18.4 πŸ˜„

Thanks!

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] No1@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but it prolly broke something else πŸ˜‚