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!

EDIT: I’ll be posting and updating the graphs in this main post periodically! Last updated: 6:21AM ET June 12th

CPU - 48 hours

Memory - 48 hours

Network - 48 hours

Load Average - 48 hours

System Disk I/O - 48 hours

    • God@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Joined from recommended a bit less than an hour ago. Tried lemmy.ml, got rejected, went for this one cuz it was top recommended and I figured with the name and the user count the likelihood of rejection was smaller.

      • Acheron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        Just joined you from that featured site, it just works. People are complaining about how hard it is to switch, I genuinely don’t know what the difficulty is

        • planish@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          This is one of the easier instances to join; most of even the big ones have a manual approval step/application process that slows things down.

          @[email protected] that might be a good thing to note about the different instances? Or would that just tell the spammers where to spam?

          • God@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            Saw some dude who had spent a week on and off trying every couple of days to join and all the servers rejected him and he had given up lol. Most users are lazy fucks. If you want quality users, it’s okay to hide the goods and let the best people find them. If you want mass adoption you need to adapt to the lowest common demoninator.

            • roomey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              2 years ago

              Well that and you can’t even tell if you are rejected, and why. I waited over 24hours for one, and I still can’t tell if I was rejected or what. It is a nice feeling to just be able to use this without jumping through hoops

              • God@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                In the end I was accepted. I noticed because I tried to log in and succeeded. Now I have two accounts I guess.

  • TheDude@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    A little update for all of you interested. I allocated the additional resources to the VM and will post some updated graphs once they update with the new configurations.

    For those who are like me and like looking at graphs here are some prior to the upgrade.

    CPU - 48 hours

    Memory - 48 hours

    Network - 48 hours

    • this@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      so if I’m reading this right, less than 10% CPU capacity and about 1/8th ram at peak times, before upgrades? gotta give you credit where it’s due, that thing looks ready to take some abuse.

      • TheDude@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        The only part I don’t have graphed yet is the disk IOs. I’m going to need to invest a little more time to get that metric going captured.

        Say you through 1000s of active users to this instance… what would cause the bottle neck first? CPU, memory, network, disk? I’m thinking probably disk due to database optimization that need to be reworked on lemmy afterwards CPU and then memory.

    • Srootus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Hello Lemmy! I’ve just made an account to get my foot in the door incase the Reddit execs don’t roll back after the blackout, let’s sit back and watch the fireworks.

  • phase_change@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.worksOPMEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      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.worksEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        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?

  • manifex@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

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

  • pax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I am from reddit migration. it’s 100000000000 times better, e.g. more accessible with my screenreader, on reddit, I needed to use special app, called dystopia which handled voiceover more gracefully.

    • donut@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

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

    • God@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve never hosted anything big but cloud fanatic is cheaper than digital ocean. I migrated from the latter to the former earlier this year to save. And then someone told me AWS is basically free up to a certain usage point. $200 free credits/mo? I can’t remember what the “free” part implied. As always, do your own research, but you could join one and switch servers later on I guess.

      • DevoidWisdom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        +1 Cloud Fanatic. They were Server Cheap until a few months ago, but I guess that name turned people off. I don’t have any heavy usage so I cant really speak to that aspect, but I’ve never been over billed or unable to connect in 3 years.

    • crius@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve recently migrated a forum community (vbulletin -> discourse) using a vpn by Contabo (germany hosting). Their price are incredible and while you don’t get an official SLA, it’s around 99.5%.

  • Dhrun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Yeah I’m trying Lemmy anticipating that Relay Pro may stop working soon. Searched for my sub reddit subjects, seemed to work though some of them seem a bit empty so far.

  • borari@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m starting to get random 500’s, I guess that’s a sign I need to go to bed and let the server breathe lol. Can’t wait for the updated graphs!