Hello everyone!

I’ll be taking the site down for two maintenance windows this week to complete our server migration.

  • Weds Jan 29th - 09:00 - 11:00 PT (12:00 - 14:00 ET)
  • Thurs Jan 30th - 09:00 - 11:00 PT (12:00 - 14:00 ET)

During the first window I’ll be migrating us from OVH to our new dedicated hardware. After this migration there will likely be some temporarily broken images, as it takes approximately 8 hours to resync our object storage from OVH.

This is a major change and despite my testing, may have some unintended side effects. If you run into any problems that aren’t just a broken image, please let us know.

The second maintenance window is to migrate our pict-rs database from it’s local sled-db into our primary postgres DB. This is a much smaller change but since pict-rs checks every image as it goes through them, it takes about 1.5 hours.

As usual, you can check https://status.lemmy.ca/ for updates.

  • ShadowOPMAEnglish
    6·
    2 hours ago

    Second move complete, all done for now!

  • ShadowOPMAEnglish
    21·
    1 day ago

    First move complete, went smoothly =)

    The broken images and thumbnails should fill in over the next 8-10 hours 🤞

    Let me know how performance is for everyone, I expect it to be quite a bit snappier!

    • wise_pancakeEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Much faster than I expected!

      Performance already seems fine for me

      Edit: I can scroll as fast as I can on my phone and never have to wait for a post to load, your upgraded server is awesome!

    • Avid AmoebaEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Didn’t even notice. Today’s been busier at work. :D

      Sorted by most comments, opened a 400-comment thread. Fast-fast.

  • saigotEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    so which canadian politician is gunna resign this time?

  • AlbbiEnglish
    25·
    3 days ago

    Good luck with the server migration!

  • stormioEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    Exciting. This brings us one step closer to Pixelfed and Friendica hosted by Fedecan.

  • IninewCrowEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    Good luck with the work … and thanks for doing all this

  • charlesEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    What’s the best way to let you know if we’re having issues after the maintenance windows? Any on a different platform if we have issues accessing Lemmy?

    Thanks for all the hard work!!

    • ShadowOPMAEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      We’re also in the lemmy rooms on matrix, but [email protected] is probably the quickest method to get my attention if you can’t even post on Lemmy at all. I really don’t expect any issues though.