So you bought a server for us? I really need to contribute financially
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Every time I see SJW, I think "Social Justice Warrior" not "Shit Just Works."
Omnissiah's blessing on the upgrade @TheDude!
TIL this instance is not "Shhh, it just works!" and it is in fact "Shit just works"
I love your alternate interpretation. There are few things in my life which work but I'm not sure how, and I don't want to investigate too much for fear that I break them.
You're just too classy
I like it. I'm just waiting for someone to bring it up as a mark against our instance somehow
I've already been accused of being a troll alt right Nazi for using this instance. Weird
I thought this instance was nice! That is weird
Does anyone else feel strangely old reading this comment, despite the fact that sh.itjust.works has only been around for less than a year?
"I was there, when the wall came down and the hexbears came"
(Obligatory "sh.it.heads for life"; "up with sh.it.heads, down with shitheads"; and so on)
Yeah same. Makes me feel warm inside to know that there are some sh.itheads who never got caught up in the various internet slapfights that have unfolded over the past year.
I mean forget about hexbear, OG sh.itheads will remember the exploding-heads defederation drama. I'll never forget when these users absolutely eviscerated me regarding our "glacial" response to defederating EH.
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/512007
Oof
Your "oh maybe, I kinda guess it's possible" attitude here is the problem. You are acting now, great, but this was an incredibly slow response, it doesn't matter if your vote is tomorrow. It's already incredibly, mind bogglingly slow, and you still decided to post a day long debate thread before the vote (it seems to show overwhelming support for defederation, which I consider totally unsurprising, and makes me wonder again what you've been waiting for).
I understand a little about why it was so glacial, but you continue to appear to not understand that this was actually a huge issue, that in that time you let the server bias towards the alt-right, showed a general support for alt right topics, and alienated an unknowable number of users in the process. Those are all the sort of users you probably wanted to keep, the ones who aren't just content to see things go badly and will take action when they see it rather than stare like a deer in headlights. If they're like me, they were probably posting and trying to find out the delay before leaving in disgust. They're folks that care about having an instance that reflects their values, and you've let them - us - down.
That can't be undone, but the way you keep shrugging it off as though you really don't see it does not inspire confidence.
Even rereading it now, that one still hurts. Thanks for not turning into a bunch of Nazis, that would have been a lot of guilt for me to work through 😅
Some reason it never crossed my mind that someone could run their own instance on their own hardware and not like a cloud provider. That's super cool!
Like Batman and Bruce Wayne, TheDude and TheCloud are never seen together.
Big D Energy
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Good luck with the upgrade!
Thanks for running this place, and thanks for the info.
What do you expect me to do for that 90 and 120 minutes??
Prepare the memes for deployment!
Good luck. Yours brought me to Lemmy and then I made my own soon after.
With a url like that how could you not?
Godspeed, f.ukwad.
(Hmm...not as cute as sh.it.head. I still kinda like it, though. Excellent domain name choice in general.)
The Dude, as per usual, abides.
Thank you again for all you do.
Thank you for all your time and effort.
Thank you for everything you are doing. Take a few days if you have to fit this migration and update. I've hosted many servers... I always feel I need to do so much for everyone. Curb that thought, if you can. We genuinely appreciate what you're doing here.
Lol SJW
SJWs are ruining everything
Not on your instance but good luck!
I appreciate everything you do for this instance. Also, thanks for posting the specs of the new build. It’s pretty neat to see what’s going on behind the curtain.
Good luck ! We did it for jlai.lu, it was a long week-end :)
Wow, so new and snappy, smells like fresh cut mahogany in here
Good luck - I previously moved Feddit.dk to a new server and recently upgraded to 0.19.3 without any problems during either upgrade - hope you have the same experience!
We can't thank you enough and we all love you. You're a rock star.
Thank you. We love you very much!
Thank you for everything you do!
Thanks Dude
Question. Why would you go with 1tb ssds instead of larger hdds? Isn't the space and price more important than the speed for this use?
You could get double the space (2tb hdd) for the same price as a 1 tb ssd.
Just wondering.
The biggest consumer of storage on this instance is related to the image hosting which we use an external object storage provider for. The second is the database which is no were near the 2TB capacity. 1TB SSDs are cheaper than 2TB SSDs and I also didn't want to spend more than I needed. As other mentioned if we need more space or IOPs in the future, I could accomplish this by adding more drives as a quick fix. This server does not support NVME unless I leverage its PCIe ports but I don't plan on doing that. By the time this instance gets to the point where 10 SSD drives just isn't cutting it anymore I'll probably have come across another opportunities on getting a new server with better NVME support.
Speed is usually the reason. SSDs in general are faster, enterprise SSDs are not only faster but much more write-tolerant and last a very long time in comparison to consumer SSDs.
They can also (in many cases) do write caching at the speed of a DRAM buffer, making the bottleneck the SATA or SAS bus itself (SAS is like enterprise SATA, 12Gb/sec as opposed to 6). NVMe can be even faster. This means that programs (ie Lemmy and its database) that write data aren’t waiting around for the drive to acknowledge the write before that program can move on to other things. Shaving off a few milliseconds per write can make a massive difference when you realize there might be millions of IOPS (Input/Output operations Per Second) under load. The requirement for low latency is everything in servers.
When you are running a public service and requests are coming in constantly and at a high rate, you really really do not want storage latency to bottleneck you, as that is a problem that will compound extremely quickly. This is a big issue with HDDs as well, as even disk seek times add to the problem, let alone caching/buffering writes.
We could talk all day about if four SSDs in a RAID 10 are optimal, but sometimes you have to think about budget and complexity as well. For the load that a popular Lemmy instance might currently draw, I’d make an educated guess that this might be sufficient for now. Room to expand was also mentioned, which is the second most important part of a storage plan.
Not on your instance, but wishing you luck on the migration and updates!
this instance is now running on its new hardware dedicated solely to this community! We experienced just under 40 minutes of downtime which is a whole 50 minutes less than expected
Woohoo, that's awesome! Thank you so much!
Woohoo!
Now, can anyone point out what -if anything- changed for us end users?
This change only brings speed & stability, which is essential, but hard to see for us, end users. The bigger one is going to happen on Thursday, where Lemmy itself is going to be updated. After Thursday's update, any users will be able to block entire instances and see our upvotes, along with many other Lemmy updates.