Sorry for the short notice, but I will be performing some server maintenance at 10:30 CST tonight.
I am going to switch to the next plan up (6 CPU 4 GB RAM) and take a snapshot of the VM while i’m at it. I’m hoping it shouldn’t take too long.
I plan on doing a longer “State of the Instance” post soon, just to update everyone with how we’re doing with donations, etc.
edit: 10:51 PM - Maintenance is complete!
Back! Seems snappier ;)
for now, haha!
Threw in $2 a month, thanks for running this :) Make sure you update your projected costs on liberapay if you increased the server specs.
thank you! and thank you for the reminder!
Any potential to do what mstn.ca did and get help with some finding from CIRA?
maybe? they have a much higher user count than here, (+34K i think?), and there could be other issues as well, but I suppose it’s something worth looking in to.
I think that would be most ideal. They may also be able to help with governance and non-profit stuff. They’re a pretty good organization and open decentralized internet is right up their alley.
Worth reaching out :)
The ol’ 386 DX needed a new 120 MB hard drive, did it?
haha yep! i might have to press the turbo button too.
120MB? Big spender!
Presumably this costs money. Is there some way to pitch in?
Here are the donation links:
https://liberapay.com/lemmy.ca/
https://opencollective.com/lemmy-caThanks!
Liberapay doesn’t take a cut, does the payment processing fee from Stripe get taken from the donation amount before getting sent to you? I’m assuming yes, just want to make sure.
pretty sure Stripe takes a fee of some sort. i’m new to taking donations too.
Off a CA$36.40 donation they took CA$1.36. Not the worst rate.
not bad! and thank you!
No, thank you for putting in the time and work.
There’s some links in the sidebar of the homepage.
That was scary.
heh sorry about that! i should have put more info in that message, but I was rushing. i also should have given more notice, but wanted to get it done before it got too late.
Not knocking you at all. I was joking. I’ve been on a DevOps team, I know how it is. 👏💛
this makes me want to bring my 42U rack back in, and acquire a server again. what kinda traffic does the site use? not that i could host it, but its something i did back in the day
here’s a bandwidth chart for the past week:
I think the total is around 150 GB so far, so it’s not too crazy yet.
so, you’re saying you dont want me to upload all the pictures of my birds just yet?
you can’t give it all away in one shot, right? haha
it’s not too crazy yet
brother I came to party
So when is the next server upgrade? Tonight? Haha. The site is growing fast.
