We’ll give the upgrade new try tomorrow. I’ve had some good input from admins of other instances, which are also gonna help troubleshoot during/after the upgrade.

Also there are newer RC versions with fixed issues.

Be aware that might we need to rollback again, posts posted between the upgrade and the rollback will be lost.

We see a huge rise in new user signups (duh… it’s July 1st) which also stresses the server. Let’s hope the improvements in 0.18.1 will also help with that.

  • @[email protected]
    10•2 years ago

    TFW you run a small server with an open source social platform for shits any giggles and one month it explodes a thousandfold because of one greedy pig boy.

    • IndiBrony
      3•2 years ago

      I’ve spent almost an hour trying to just to sign up. Poor servers. This is my first comment here and I sincerely hope this takes off in the best way.

      • Xilly
        2•2 years ago

        I’ve been on here almost a month and there are usually very few issues and the admin team are quick to troubleshoot when an issue does arise. It should calm down soon!

      • Ulu-Mulu-no-die
        1•2 years ago

        Servers are being hammered hard right now lol, but it should calm down soon, you’ll see it’s pretty stable outside of reddit hugs of death :D

        • @[email protected]
          1•2 years ago

          It’ll calm down as in more resources are provisioned or redditors looking to ditch reddit give up and go back to reddit because of stability issues, thus lowering use count closer to normal?

          Because the later isn’t ideal 😬

          I have business fiber and my own compute, can nodes be ran distributed? I’d be happy to spin up VMs to run a node service. Or does this rely on a single central host?

          • Admin
            1•2 years ago

            You can host your own instance, which will be federated with this one by default. Every little bit helps.

            • @[email protected]
              1•2 years ago

              Can you tell me more?

              Can we have distributed compute? Is there some official process to be federated with lemmy.world to provide resources? How do upgrades work? I assume some sort of consensus algorithm is in use (ie. Raft)?

              • Ulu-Mulu-no-dieEnglish
                2•2 years ago

                It’s not distributed computing, they are different servers independent from each other but that replicate data among them because they use the same communication protocol (ActivityPub), that’s what federation does.