There was a little hiccup this morning unrelated to the migration tonight. The Lemmy services like to be restarted every once in a while. Once we move to the new hardware I’ll be able to look into implementing a better logging system and hopefully be more proactive when situations like these happen.
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.
I’ve started the preparation steps to minimize the maintenance window needed for this upgrade. These operations are running some background tasks and once they are done I’ll make an announcement to give everyone a few days heads up of the anticipated upgrade time and date. Should be soon.
The best way is to @TheDude on our matrix channel. This action triggers notifications across all my devices, creating a barrage of alerts that almost always grab my attention, a.k.a a ddos to my sensory system.
@kersploosh explained it well. It was related to a small bug on the pictrs service that I’ve already reported which they quickly fixed in a newer version. I will tackle this upgrade at the same time as I get this instance up to v19
@InEnduringGrowStrong in the perfect world community admins should be moderating their communities and the site admins should only be called upon when there is community abuse or when community mods are not doing any moderation.
As @antik mentioned below @MichelleG is an alt account for same person on lemmy.world ans she has provided tons of help to this instance.
You are right about one thing, I am currently stretched really thin. If made a list of all my responsibilities I think it would shock a lot of you. That being said the amount of time it takes to run a community is astonishing and running a community well requires a lot more time than I have left to give. There is still a lot of work needed to be spent on this site.
The admins of this site help a huge amount as is mostly due to them that we are still running but I don’t want to dump more onto their plates.
I could use a lot more help in all areas (system administration, community moderation, legal revision, moving to accepting donations).
If anyone is interested in helping reach out on Matrix.
The original rules of lemmy.comfysnug.space explicitly allowed for loli content to be posted. I associate loli content with pedophilia and therefore was the reason why I had defederated with them.
I have made some changes to how this instance sends email that should help with the email issues people have been experiencing. If anyone continues to have issues receiving emails please let me know
I will not share the list of accounts as I feel its everyone right to vote and to have their own opinions whether they align with yours or not.
I will however say, Its mostly the same accounts that are down voting you. The majority of the accounts are over 2 months old with content generated by them (they do not seem like bot account). There are a few that are just 10 days old. 99% of the down votes are from other instances with feddit.uk and feddit.nl being the primary source of them.
The big email email providers are not liking the amount of email coming from the server ip. The permanent fix is to use a mail sending service. I do plan on making that adjustment soon.
In the meanwhile send me a dm with your username and email address used and I’ll verify the account for you.