For those who find it interesting, enjoy!
Can someone give me a hand. I see tons of posts of people talking about a picture in the OP but i see nothing. Am i doing something wrong? Is my connection bad? This seems to be happening quite a lot. For example the meme instance has almost zero pictures but i know just about every post should have one.
hmm yeah it was gone… need to investigate…
It gets me every time seeing people using the product I build 🥹
You worked on Grafana? Your product is awesome, I use it in my homelab for performance metrics
Yes, I’m one of the designers 👍🏾
Grafana is one of those tools which everyone should use if they have something they maintain themselves. Superb tool.
Love Grafana, especially the new UI. Great work, man. :)
Grafana is the most essential application in my job. I can use Notepad to code in a world without IDEs. I couldn’t keep a damn thing running in the real world without Grafana. And I’ve been forced against my will to use alternatives in the past.
You work at Grafana?
I really enjoy your transparency and style of communication!
Comparing it to Spez and how Reddit became prior to the migration, this is such a refreshing change
/u/Ruud is like /u/Spez but only if /u/Spez was actually cool.
Sooo… /u/Ruud is nothing like /u/Spez? Same energy as “Communism is like Capitalism but only if Capitalism got rid of the concept of capital”.
Yes that was the joke.
Some of my usage is in this data and I like that.
It’s been very snappy today, nice work! Is it all under Docker Compose with the node handling Nginx and Postgres as well?
Yes.
I‘m really grateful for your and your colleagues‘ work. Thank you for letting us lemmy around here!!!
Why did you guys roll back the UI to .7 from .10? I enjoyed some of the UI improvements, but I guess there were some bugs?
Edit: I see its back to .10 maybe I had a browser tab open from before that I never refreshed
How can I throw some bucks in your direction?
From the lemmy.world front page:
Donations If you would like to make a donation to support the cost of running this platform, please do so at the mastodon.world donation URLs: https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld https://patreon.com/mastodonworldWhere in the frontpage can we see this?
Edit: thank you all!
It’s on the right-hand sidebar of lemmy.world:
Awesome! I’m on mobile, so I cannot see it. Will check it out when I get to my computer.
You can view sidebar on mobile. I think it’s in the three dots, but it’s somewhere!
EDIT: On Jerboa it’s under Community Info, under the three dots. On the mobile web app for L.W. there’s a sidebar button.
Just go to lemmy.world and click sidebar.
This is awesome! As a systems engineer for my day job, I love seeing stuff like this!
How much is this costing you? Also who is your host? Is it on a virtual machine?
They have a dedicated server: https://lemmy.world/post/75556
It’s actually pretty funny to see him mention the growth (almost 12k users!) considering they’ve added, what, 50k or so users recently?
I signed up three days before that post. They were the largest instance with open signups. Almost 1000 users.
Whoa, cool. Thanks. Only a matter of time until it gets overloaded though. Can’t Lemmy run in a container service like Cloud Run or AWS App Runner?
Yeah, you could do it in AWS with ECS or Fargate.
https://github.com/jetbridge/lemmy-cdk
Indeed you can, very cool.
My homies love dedicated servers
Dedicated means local?
Dedicated usually means it’s not splitting cpu time with another instance. It could mean a local machine but it does not have to be one.
Tbh I’d see it hard to be local, so maybe it is cloud computing but a standalone instance as you just said.
No, it means it’s got the physical machine all to itself. It’s a rented server located in a Hetzner data center.
Dang that’s a lot of RAM
mastodon.world has the same server but with twice the RAM :-)
What chassis? I’ve got 256GB in an R720 but only 32 cores here!
It’s a AX161 server at Hetzner
€142 is more reasonable than I expected! I’ll toss some cash to help!
I know that the RAM cache is just taking advantage of otherwise free RAM and will be dropped in favor of anything else, but it does stress me out a bit to see it “full” like that.
So I‘m currently on planning to host an instance myself. This graph helped me quite a lot to get an idea what system resources are required.
Do you use any reverse proxy in front of it?
Lemmy world has a lot of users. So your instance initially will require a lot less resources ✌️
Yeah I saw that. I‘m a big fan of minimalistic, yet super performant architectures and I‘m just trying to get a feeling on how I could solve this problem. I try to avoid any downtime, whenever possible
Nginx runs on the server , proxying to the lemmy docker containers
That‘s what I had in mind. To run nginx on a seperate vps, so I can scale it easier. Run fediverse instances in the back, either all on one vps or on different vps. This way I could provide a hub while increase performance (due to compression and caching) and provide redundancy/load balancing if necessary.
What‘s the typical traffic you experience? Peak (Gbit/s) and average/daily traffic (GB)
Thanks, that’s super helpfu!
Damn that’s a huge chunk of (what looks like) a 64 core CPU there. Impressive!
It’s cool it can aggressively cache that much. Although I am perplexed why one would have a swap file configured in this case? What does it give you here? Sorry not trying to be an elitist or anything just have no idea what advantage you get!
I am not seeing them. Are they gone?
This is so cool to see. Thanks for posting! Lemmy.world has been super smooth today
