As someone who joined in the 196 migration I love this instance, I'm glad you're saying we're fine to stay <3
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If you wish, I can try to migrate 196 to a different instance. That would most probably reduce the load considerably
I honestly really like that 196 is here
While your offer clearly comes from a place of compassion, I don't think that's what the admins are asking for. They stated elsewhere in the thread that the main point of their post was to inform about the downtime and why.
I think if you wanted to do something to make a difference, maybe you could put the ko-fi link in the sidebar of 196 and ask people to contribute if they're able.
I love that people in the comments here are like “have you tried” and “maybe we could”…as if I expected a server full of trans folks to NOT have a bunch of techie people on it :)
How much bandwidth does the instance use a day?
Over a terabyte
That is insane
That's crazy is there a breakdown of the bandwidth? Like is it federation, images or ddos using so much bandwidth?
I know you are looking/found a solution but if the main culprit is images would it be possible to offload it to a few servers? I feel like running multiple image server instances would be cheaper for bandwidth. Oracle cloud offers 10tb outbound a month for free per region/month on the free teir. Or is an unmetered host viable? From my understanding Lemmy is pretty light in terms of CPU/memory or does that fall apart at scale?
If you don't mind and it's not too much trouble would you be willing to share stuff like load average/disk use?
Edit I looked this over again. Not an endorsement for giving oracle or Larry Ellison money, they are awful. I was just was trying to say the free stuff is generous. You can use 40tb outbound without paying on the free resources. As always aggressive support for you Ada! Thanks for the transparency in your community!
It's most images from lemmy. We've set up a caching server for pictrs, and that has got the bandwidth part under control.
Next step, get everything else off of AWS :)
It seems like the images are playing a big role so perhaps having images being offloaded to another service (like catbox.moe) or converting images to WebP with a healthy amount of compression would help.
Basically decrease the amount of storage you folks are having to pay for.
Or auto delete pictures after a week or 2 and add a disclaimer about it to when pictures are being uploaded.
Maybe also a file size limit. Nothing over 10MB or whatever.
I hope this whole thing can be sorted out I dig this instance.
To be clear, we have the solution. This post was explaining future downtime and why it's happening. We're not going anywhere.
*shark of the nation
State of the shork?
That's interesting to know the price per user is averaging 50¢ per month, I wonder what other instances like beeaw, lemmy.world, etc. are at?
Either way, I hope more people donate to help keep costs manageable, especially reoccurring donations.
Also, thank you so much for the work you've done and continue to do with this, there's no where else in the fediverse I'd rather be than here!
Most people aren't running on AWS, and once we move off of it, our costs will come way down. We're just seeing the reality of a tiny instance for a few people that grew rapidly in a way we didn't see coming. We didn't implement things initially with this scale in mind :)
Best server admins ever <3