we accidentally did the upgrade just now, which is what you just experienced. anyways we’re at like double the power and processing, and three times the storage we were previously at so yeah hopefully that’ll be good. anyways i guess i’ll leave this post stickied until i go to sleep in like an hour

    • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPMEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      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)

      • lemmyng@beehaw.orgEnglish
        18·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • Sc2Pirate@beehaw.orgEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    Nothing makes you sweat like an accidental deployment! Looks like it worked, mark that as a win!

    • PenguinCoder@beehaw.orgMEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the recognition. We aren’t a big silicon valley conglomerate, just a few people trying to make a better service for others.

  • darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.partyEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • M.Cauthon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • luckless@beehaw.orgEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • luckless@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

        • luckless@beehaw.org
          3·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • BackOnMyBS@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            Sounds pretty fun! I have a spare laptop running Linux Mint. I would like to try running my own instance and sharing it with a few users. Below are the specs. Do you think it will be powerful enough, and if so, how many users would it be able to handle?

            Dell Inspiron 15-5000
            CPU: Intel Core i5-5200U, 2 cores, 4 threads
            RAM: 8GB
            Storage: SanDisk SSD Plus 1TB

            • luckless@beehaw.org
              1·
              1 year ago

              This is really just a guess, but I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to run an instance with a handful of users on that machine. Just don’t expect too much.

  • DarbyDear@beehaw.orgEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    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!