Thank you Ruud for hosting! Your work is much appreciated.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Thanks for hosting this great instance! We appreciate all you're doing!
Godspeed to you over the coming days man. Really appreciate you putting this together and the extra work it takes when tackling something like this (both being new to the platform and the tech still being in relative infancy) - not to mention the crazy scaling happening. I will definitely be pitching in to help make sure the server stays up!!
Thanks a bunch! I'll be donating for what it's worth. I really like it here.
Hey. From my own experience - Nginx is awesome and fast when it is working, but the more you want from it, the more difficult it becomes.
Give Caddy a try. This reverse proxy has always been excellent for me. It has HTTP3 (QUIC) support, automatic ACME and overall excellent configuration in terms of simplicity and user friendliness.
Caddy is not a good choice if you need TCP/UDP proxy. It's only HTTP/HTTPS proxy.
Someone said this about Caddy "it injects advertising headers into your responses". Is this true? I don't know anything about caddy but that doesn't sound too good lo (to be fair it could be misinformation).
Never heard about it. This is open source project, free to use.
In case you want to understand why it's good, check out Caddyfile example. Just specify something like this:
example.com {
reverse_proxy backend:1234
}
And that's it! It automatically binds on 0.0.0.0:80 only for redirects to 0.0.0.0:443 + using ACME adds TLS, all behinds the scenes.
Add 1 more line to my given example and it adds compreasion.
I've been using it for my self-hosted stuff for prob 1-2 years and it kept working flawlessly all the time. Very satisfied.
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Hey, I just want to echo what everyone else is saying - thanks much for hosting + all the efforts to keep things working well. It's appreciated π
Well worth any inconvenience, thank you so much for hosting!
Good luck today lol
2 restarts done already :-)
Hmm. I guess the delay in posting is not related to nginx. I now have the same conf as a server that doesn't have this issue.
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Thanks for putting in the time to make this run smoothly
Thank you so much for this amazing instance!
You're welcome!
Hehe, the joys of troubleshooting and profiling. Isn't it fun?
Hmm if it takes too long the fun disappears... ;-)
You got this. <3
I don't have experience scaling Lemmy, but I do have experience scaling stuff in general. I'm sure you've got a few people here who'd be willing to talk things through with you if you get too frustrated.
And don't forget to breathe and step back if you have to. Your well being is more important.
Thanks for hosting.
Lots of slowness still.
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Lots of instances are getting hugged to death. lemmy.ml and beehaw.org aren't even loading for me anymore.
Thank you, Ruud!
Since I have you here, if I start my own instance do I absolutely have to use docker? I've never had good experiences with it and would rather just install programs the old-fashioned way
Docker is not necessary, lemm.ee for example is running without docker!
Here is documentation for setting it up: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/from_scratch.html
Of course you can fully adapt it to your own use case. The Lemmy backend is a single binary, you don't even need to build it on the same machine which will run it. There's no hard requirement to use nginx or anything like that either - if you understand what this guide is doing, you can replace all the unimportant parts as needed.
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Something is weird.
I opened this post from main page "subscribed listing", but the title showed "I can't find any cannabis cultivation community", but the comments were same. I initially thought I have opened a wrong post, but the comments were mentioning "Good work Ruud", so I refreshed and it fixed post's title.
Have you noticed the issue?
I've noticed a couple oddities as well.
- I refresh a page and a completely different page loads instead
- An autorefresh hits the community tab, but it loads up 10 posts from a single community I'm sure it'll get sorted out eventually lol
It's happened to me a few times as well (not just on this instance, think it's a bug in Lemmy itself). So far I'e not found a reproducible pattern though so it's a tricky one to bug report effectively.
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@ruud@lemmy.world have you seen https://lemmy.world/post/72136 ?
Thanks! Hadn't seen, but changed that (also to 512!) yesterday.
That is definitely a good lead
Keep up the good work!
I joined this instance and also mastodon.social, first time using the Fediverse and as excited as confused lol
thanks for everything!
Thank you! Sounds like a lot of work.
Somehow I donβt think the slowness when posting or saving is due to the nginx server / reverse proxy running inside the Lemmy container.
I would think itβs related to inserts and updates in the DB, but I havenβt had time to look into it on my instance, sorry!
Edit wait! Posting and saving is fast now! What did you change? Nicely done! π
No it's not! Not for me anyway. Yes I'll be looking into that, but first migrate the server!
Oh wait, thatβs because Iβm posting to Lemmy.world from my instance. Itβs only slow when posting to Lemmy.world from a Lemmy.world user.
With that in mind, it makes me think it has something to do with some insert or update that happens. My local DB is not under load, so my save is fast. Lemmy.worldβs DB is under load so the save is slow.
It might not even be the insert/update that is slow. Could be some other insert into another table that gets triggered on save that is the culprit.
Posting seems faster when posting to a non-local federated community. Maybe that's what you experienced?
You are right. Good catch.
As others have said, thanks for hosting. I also have an account at mastodon.world so I had to join here. ;)
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