Upgrading is always a nightmare but once its done generally lemmy improves bit by bit :)
Upgrade is complete
Upgrade did actually complete. pictrs had some issues but I think I fixed them (hopefully).
Any issues let me know.
Upcoming downtime
Lemmy once again needs upgrading. This time all components - pictrs, postgres and lemmy itself. This will mean that at least 1 of these (fragile) things will almost certainly break and leave the server down for some time. I will be investigating how best to unbreak the server over the next couple of weeks and post when we intend to do the update that inevitably will destroy the server in some way. If you use the server daily you may wish to create a secondary account so that you are not too disrupted when the update happens. Unfortunately upgrading lemmy is not as easy as one might hope so I cant tell you exactly what will happen ahead of time. I will post again when we have a general idea what to do with an intended date.
Just to let you have an update, we are caught up with all instances except lemmy.world which is still 3 days behind. You can monitor or track the federation progress here: https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_instance=lemmy.myserv.one&from=now-12h&to=now
Either a local SMTP server (less used) or an external service (more common). The SMTP is configurable but I believe most used option is ssl smtp over port 587.
Federation is returning to normal and should be working again fully by tomorrow. There is some catch up to do.
Thank you, I am busy looking at the federation issue right now and hope to resolve it soon. This instance is just a single server so if its turned off then the impact is total, but in terms of the datacentre the entire site was down and power was slowly restored to parts of it and is still ongoing, we are luckily back online but some parts are still down and damaged. The site is 1515 round table drive Dallas TX.
I also purged the post you reported.
Downtime 26-27 May 2024
Hi there,
Unfortunately the site was down for about 2 days over the 26-27 May this month.
This was due to the datacentre we use being affected by a storm/tornado: (https://apnews.com/article/tornadoes-weather-texas-oklahoma-93001e1d81f120d0d55c8dfa24938250) which took out power to the facility for just under 2 days. At no time was there any risk of loss to the server due to off site backups, however we did have to wait for the centre to come back online.
While this server is run extremely cheaply, at just $20 USD per month (approx) which includes paying for the compute, domain, email, and off site backup as well as object storage, it does mean that there is not redundancy when a site wide outage occurs. The low cost means that there is no risk of this server ever being unable to meet its costs and be paid for, but it does mean we sometimes can have an outage if a major event happens such as what happened and a delay before being brought back online.
The decision for this was because this server is designed to help reduce load on the rest of the fediverse and does not store much local content so a couple days a year the server is out was deemed acceptable during the design phase.
If you have any questions or comments feel free to post and I will try my best to answer them :)
- P
I mean so is control d a set and forget. Even more so because they manage any changes and workarounds the companies come up with. Its basically designed for this. Having tried both options its my preferred option.
Set your country to Albania, Moldova, or Myanmar and you wont get ads on youtube.
Yes I do use opnsense and it was more annoying than control d. I tried both options.
One way I have reduced my subscriptions is by using control d. I know vpns are popular on lemmy but I found it an annoying to have to have a vpn for each device I wanted to bypass a country lock. Moreover it was annoyyng for some devices like apple tv that does not support a vpn. Establishing a vpn on the firewall broke other services that I needed to work locally in my country.
Control d on the other hand is a dns proxy tunnel so you just alter the dns on the devices you want to use it, and in their control panel you can have different countries per service - so if you browse youtube that can go via a country that does not allow ads. Bbc iplayer can be told to go via uk and so on. This is a lot more convenient and allows you to retain your country for all services except the ones you want to tunnel.
I read this whole thread and didnt find a single person who uses teams inside ferdium like me.
Just an apology for downtime
Just want to give everyone an apology for the downtime last few days. Its unfortunate that we were down around 18 - 20 hours in total and rest assured I have made improvements based in what happened to reduce this going forward. Its been 24h now since the upgrade to 0.19.1 and everything has remained stable so far.
Hopefully thats the end of it. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all :)
-P
You can also use poptube on ios. Thats what I use.
All time site uptime reaches 98.5%
Today on 27 October 2023 lemmy.myserv.one reached 98.5% uptime. We are also in the top 700 most reliable lemmy servers now as measured by this site: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
Next goal is top 500 servers and/or 99.5% uptime.
Thanks everyone:)
Racism
Backed by a barrage of rockets, dozens of Hamas militants broke out of the blockaded Gaza Strip and into nearby Israeli towns, killing dozens and abducting others in an unprecedented surprise early morning attack during a major Jewish holiday Saturday.
Reminder in light of recent events for members here to always conduct themselves appropriately on other instances and not make racist comments towards any race. Keep opinions clean, factual and constructive and be dignified in your responses.
I would prefer not to have to act on other admins reports that members from this server have been acting inappropriately.
Many thanks in advance for your considered and exemplary behaviour.
-T
Updated server to 0.18.5
Updated the server to 0.18.5 today so it is kept up to date and compliant with the rest of the lemmy fediverse.
If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been?
Would they have all still fought against him?
Registration approval is now required to join this instance.
To conform with what other instances are doing to fight spam, now you must be approved by an admin to join this instance when applying to join.
If there is anyone who wants to help Debian by running testing, here is a guilde I maintain:
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/2233387
> If you like Debian and like to help make it better, and also want to use testing please review this guide where I try to cover many common things and improve your experience: > > https://makedebianfunagainandlearnhowtodoothercoolstufftoo.computer/doku.php?id=start > > Thanks for being a Debian testing user :)
Past 24h images deleted.
Past 24h of images will be broken as I purged them from the database. Someone on lemmy.world was posting CSAM and to remove the images I simply removed the offending community and purged the last 24h of images so I dont have to go searching for them. New posts images will work as normal and the content of posts is unaffected, but if you want an image or thumbnail from the last 24h you will have to click through to the actual source of the post to see the image.
Sync lemmy accounts accross instances
The app that synchronizes multiple lemmy accounts so you can migrate and keep backup accounts across instances, it’s opensource and free, currently working in android and windows. It’s in homologation now and anyone can test, any feedbacks are welcome as always. If you find any bugs please report Gi...
Good for backup etc
Cloudflare now enabled for ddos etc
Cloudflare proxy is now running with Full (Strict) encryption and speed improvements along with the ddos protection. Apologies if you couldnt access the site for about 30 minutes while it got configured.
Email currently has an issue on 0.18.3
After upgrading to 0.18.3 email is not functioning. Temporarily I have had to turn this off, but if you lose oyur password it will not be possible to gain access until the bug is resolved. I have logged a bug on github, hopefully a solution can be found quickly.
P
Site maintenance later in like 8-10 hours
Will be working on the site later to improve the backup and there will be some downtime later for an hour or so while I work on it.
P
Finding most popular communities across all servers
If you need to find the most popular community across all servers in the fediverse use this link :
https://browse.feddit.de/
For example if you searched ‘new york’ you would be able using that page to find the one with the most users or engagement rather than joining a less popular community.
If anyone needs help just ask below :)
Desperate or just business as normal?
The Reddit app is potentially introducing a Contributor program, allowing users to earn real money for their contributions, creating a self-sustaining ecosystem within the community.
Make content, get paid.