HELLO FRIENDS! Do you like updates? Here is an update.

I pride myself on running mas.to as a fast and reliable server. Over the last 48 hours it has been slow, lagging hours behind real-time and with periods of downtime. This is not the experience I want for our members!

There was simply no way to anticipate the colossal demand that hit us on Friday. It was huge! We have however now caught up and will monitor the situation. Weโ€™ll keep registrations closed for the time being.

@trumpet Me no like slow.
@lydiaconwell Neither do I! And you've been around for a while, you know we like to keep things fast on mas.to!
@trumpet Iโ€™m picturing Trump screaming โ€œhugeโ€ while looking like a tangerine.
@trumpet I'm interested in the story someday when you have time to tell it.
@trumpet Keep up the good work! Impressed
@trumpet How many cups of coffee have you had since Friday ๐Ÿคช
@trumpet we appreciate all your efforts, and thank you! 
@trumpet
Thanks for the update! Full marks.
@trumpet Thank you for all you're doing. Out of interest, how much is server load driven by the growth of the Fediverse as a whole, versus users on this instance?
@trumpet Thanks! I see that the toots autotranslation is not working yet.
@lucascranach We moved to LibreTranslated (hosted on our own servers) so should be working again now.
@trumpet fantastic job, thank you so much for all your hard work. It is greatly appreciated.
@trumpet go some numbers? Love to see the server back โค๏ธ
@stooovie We're very close to 130k users now. That's 100k more than at the start of November.
@trumpet Thank you very much for all the hard work and for the hospitality already shown to all of us new to the instance.
@trumpet itโ€™s ticking along very smoothly this morning. Nice one.

@trumpet I really appreciate the hard work you put in to keep this server going!

As a reminder to everyone, you can help with the running costs here: https://ko-fi.com/trumpet

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@trumpet Than you for your sterling efforts keeping the instance up. Much appreciated ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜Š
@trumpet hello, newbie here. First off thank you for allowing me to join your community. Secondly, 24yrs in tech so thoroughly understand what youโ€™ve been up against. Thirdly, youโ€™re doing wonderfully! If anyone says otherwise theyโ€™re simple showing that ignorance never dissipates without learning & understanding. Thank you for doing all youโ€™re doing to keep things running ๐Ÿค“

@trumpet

Good move... You're doing an awesome job!
It's a big thank you from me.

@trumpet thank you! ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ˜˜
@trumpet Thank you for all youโ€™re doing! I know also there are costs, both your time and โ‚ฌ/$/ยฃ. Thereโ€™s an ad hoc kofi suggestion in the mas.to About but with the growth in numbers is this enough? Whatโ€™s needed for the instance to be permanently sustainable?
@stephenserjeant @trumpet Kofi allows monthly recurring donations, as a start! I would be curious how much each member of Mas.to would have to donate to cover average monthly server costs (and some of Trumpets time), though.
@stephenserjeant @trumpet Not that I think we should make every member donate! Financial situations differ, of course ๐Ÿ˜Š
@trumpet is it still running on a single server or did you split off some services?
@bitpirate Weโ€™d previously moved twice to single larger servers. The one we were on was handling capacity perfectly well until the end of last week! We now have another server with the same specs and will move some services over to that!
@bitpirate Just as an update we have some services overspilling onto a third server now!
@trumpet seems much better today, great job, thank you!
@trumpet youโ€™re doing a great job ๐Ÿ‘ thank you! ๐Ÿ™Œ
@trumpet Iโ€™m amazed youโ€™ve been able to cope so well. Thank you for doing this
@trumpet thank you for letting us all in your space. Sorry for all the headache we must have caused you ๐Ÿซฃ

@trumpet

I'm sorry we have caused this! We are Richard Armitage's fans ๐Ÿ˜€ also known as the Armitage Army, We are 1000's strong, so we are sorry to cause these problems for you!

We were (with RA) looking for another resting place as Twitter is no longer viable with Mr M at the helm and as I noticed from one of his ex employees was coming here, I suggested we try here and here we are.

We are sorry for causing so much trouble ๐Ÿ˜’

@trumpet I thought the high demand may be the problem. It's now soooo much faster. Thanks so much for your great work ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ˜€
@trumpet thanks for all your hard work

@trumpet thank you for all your incredible work! Another Kofi coming your way

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@trumpet As a flightless refuge, what can we do, beyond providing funding, to make this easier? Happy to donate technical time and experience if that helps. Scalability is my game in the real world.
@sirebel I think we're good for now but I might need to give you a yell one day soon!
@trumpet Love you ๐ŸŽบ ! Thanks for all you do. xx
@trumpet thanks Trumpet, really appreciate all you're doing. Keep on trumpeting...
@trumpet You're doing a fab job, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who is very grateful. Thank you. <3
@trumpet no need to reply, just to say I'm a big fan of your work. Thank you.
@trumpet Thank you for all you are doing. It canโ€™t have been easy with all the new accounts arriving, mine included. ๐Ÿ˜
@trumpet youโ€™re amazing. Thanks for everything you do!
@trumpet Every time you think "Massive wave, this should be okay, can't be a lot more new people after this" there's another mass migration. It's a tough job! Thanks for doing it!
@trumpet Thank you for all you do. My experience here has generally been great.
@trumpet An overload of people coming from Twitter? I assumed that's what it was. Anyhoo, it's nice here. ๐Ÿ‘Œ