The instance has been down several times over the past few days?

Is there some ongoing maintenance, or are we doomed to face the same as feddit.uk?

  • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙
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    1051 year ago

    volunteer run and volunteer paid servers sometimes go down. you may not be used to this happening with large, for-profit websites.

    • @SlothMama@lemmy.world
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      621 year ago

      I literally remember when sites like Reddit, Amazon, and even Google went down. We’re so used to crazy uptimes that it’s easy to forget that real servers and infrastructure have real problems.

    • Snot Flickerman
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      201 year ago

      Who’d have guessed that volunteers without big bags of cash usually only actually have one or two actual servers running and they somehow can’t afford a whole fleet of failover servers for when traffic gets too high.

    • adONisOP
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      61 year ago

      Actually, I’m more used to the big sites going down, than small ones, but considering the fact that they are well-fed to come back online, compared to volunteer projects, just gave me some concerns

      • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙
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        11 year ago

        I totally understand, and it’s a valid concern. Without knowing anything about the admins who run this instance, it’s entirely possible that monitoring isn’t in place, or it is in place but notifications aren’t setup, or that is the case but people can’t respond to problems because they are at their day job, or they are responding to problems but solving those problems takes hours… I’m speaking from personal experience running smaller projects for others. I was always very thankful to have users who understood these concerns, and I guess I try to gently remind users about the realities of the volunteer-run projects.

  • netburnr
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    741 year ago

    https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/#month

    They do a lot to be transparent and monitor availability.

    There is an big usage jump before Xmas, I assume because of the recent lemmy version upgrade that many admins are saying uses more resources.

    Give em some time, I’m sure there will be a patch soon.

    Best part of the fediverse is you can just use a less popular server until things calm down.

    • adONisOP
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      11 year ago

      I know I could, but many of the communities I follow, are on lemmy.world. So that doesn’t mitigate the issue.

      • netburnr
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        -11 year ago

        I don’t think you understand how a federated system works based on that comment.

        • @beetus@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          If the instance that hosts those communities goes down or struggles to stay afloat won’t it struggle to federate its content outside its own network?

          If I join another instance and lemmy.world is down, it’s not like I can see the communities on lemmy.world.

          Joining another instance as a user doesn’t solve the problem that lemmy.world has bad uptime outside of the scope of reducing the load on LW itself

          • netburnr
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            -11 year ago

            Federation takes almost no server load. It’d all the people loading images and comment threads that cause the server to slow down. Yes federation can break, especially due to unexpected code changes, but typically using a federated, lower user count site helps over all.

            • @beetus@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              So what changed with Lemmy then? A few months back when I joined the ecosystem many instances including LW were unreachable for many hours a day. Joining up to a new instance didn’t make LW content appear (as they were offline).

              The issues today feel largely the same as a user, though less frequent. Am I misunderstanding?

              • netburnr
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                01 year ago

                0.19.1 has a problem that causes higher than expected server load, as illustrated in my first post showing their utilization graphs.

                As for a few months ago, “someone” was DDoSing lemmy.world almost constantly but i guess they ran out of money or got bored.

  • 🚫🍌 no banana
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    461 year ago

    It has? I haven’t noticed. I’m guessing a lot of people have been bored over Christmas.

  • @DrRatso@lemmy.ml
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    271 year ago

    World is probably overwhelmed again. I switched from world because of frequent outages. I don’t think you have to worry about UK scenario however, since the problem there was that the instance owner went awol.

  • @TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    231 year ago

    Lemmy.World hasn’t had many major issues since September, at least when I’ve been using it. It was really bad in the early days from June to August when they were constantly getting traffic + getting DDOS’d. It seems like they’ve had the best uptime overall, since then though

    • adONisOP
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      21 year ago

      I’m a kbin refugee, so joined lemmy just recently. I mean, I had an account here, but never actually used it until now. And admittedly I also never faced issues here.

      • @TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        I actually have noticed a few times in the last few days that Lemmy world has timed out. But it has never actually been down for me. I would chalk it up to the higher resource usage of v0.19, hopefully that gets addressed by the Lemmy devs or World beefs things up a bit

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶
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    181 year ago

    Are you donating to Lemmy world? If you have concerns, start donating. Money makes the Lemmy.world stay online

  • @Fades@lemmy.world
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    81 year ago

    I have noticed sometimes posting a comment will take longer but I just swap apps for a few when that happens.

    You go when you’re ready lemmy pats mouse’s head

    • adONisOP
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      11 year ago

      I use phtn.app mainly, and when encountering issues, I double-check lemmy.world

  • @orangeNgreen@lemmy.ca
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    81 year ago

    I don’t think lemmy.world is going anywhere, but I keep this lemmy.ca account as a backup just in case of .world outages. It’s been coming in handy the last couple of days.

  • @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    41 year ago

    The instance has been down several times over the past few days?

    That reads like a statement but you’re asking a question.

      • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿
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        41 year ago

        Think I’m getting deja vu or Mandela’d. I swear I read that week’s ago and it sorted itself out.

        So what’s the new instance URL?

        • @TheGreenGolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          61 year ago

          It eventually came back online, and the people behind the new one don’t want to share the new instance until it’s “ready”. I don’t understand it either.

          • tkc
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            Feddit.uk went down for a bit and no one knows why. We’re seemingly back now though.

            There is only one fully privileged admin (the original owner), and they’re not super present. We have two other admins but they’re restricted in what they can do (don’t have access to the server itself I think?, can’t upgrade).

            A couple of users are setting up a new UK lemmy instance in response to this situation. One of those users is very keen for it to be a replacement, hence the posts. Not everyone is on board with it though. It’s been put in hold while they iron some things out.

            It’s not an “official” replacement for feddit.uk in that sense, but it’s another UK instance.

          • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿
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            31 year ago

            They need a dashingly handsome and charismatic leader such as me to show them the right path to glory. Unfortunately, I’m going to bed.

    • adONisOP
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      41 year ago

      Dude, why’d you call me a nonce? Can’t you just use normal insults like idiot or moron.

      btw, since english isn’t my first language I had to look it up with the expectation of it meaning something funny like a donkey… but that’s just a disgusting language.

  • mo_ztt ✅
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    -41 year ago

    You misspelled, “Hey it seems like this thing I get to use for free needs some help. What can I do?”

    • adONisOP
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      51 year ago

      I already did the most common thing that’s done in the open source community… I raised an issue