lemmy.radio (un)scheduled downtime (complete)
I’m either in my shack or in the mountains (or posting here)
Alt posting account: @[email protected]
I’m either in my shack or in the mountains (or posting here)
Alt posting account: @[email protected]
Thanks for putting up with the (un)scheduled downtime!
A status update: for the past 2 years, we have operated using a fairly large size VPS using Akamai/Linode. To be specific, we were using:
This was mostly due to the the large amounts of images, videos, media that we accumulate over the years we’ve been up and running (we’re going to be turning 3 years old very soon btw!)
A few months ago, to help with the large costs of running this site, I moved all of our media to object storage, which TREMENDOUSLY cut down our drive space usage. And…
Today is the day, I actually scaled us back to a “smaller” VPS to help cut down on prices further. We are currently using:
So let’s talk turkey about savings (if you care)
This drops our server fees from about ~$175/month to around ~$90/month
This is the price of the VPS, object storage, .radio domain, and email services we use.
Thank you for putting up with the hour or so we were down. I’m hoping that this will keep us running WELL into the future.
Cheers and 73,
w0odl
lemmy.radio (un)scheduled downtime (complete)
lemmy.radio upgrading to 0.19.15 (complete)
Hey all! This is actually a double upgrade from 0.9.13 -> 0.9.14 -> 0.9.15. This mostly includes moderation feature add. Give them a look at: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-12-24_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.15_and_Testing_for_1.0 [https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-12-24_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.15_and_Testing_for_1.0] Let me know if any issues arise from the upgrade. Seems like lemmy 1.0 is around the corner! 73, w0odl
Lemmy Downtime and Image Uploads
Hey all! Just wanted to share that we were down for about 2.5 hours today due to space issues on our server. I moved a few things around and everything seems to be up and running. To help with this issue, I’ve moved our image server to S3 which may alleviate some of our issues, but I think the largest chuck of space is being taken up by propagated comments from other servers and I’m not sure what to do about that. We’re currently using about 300gigs our of a 320gig VPS. It seems the S3 uploads are working, but as always, if something seems off, let me know! 73, w0odl
lemmy.radio upgrading to 0.19.13
This version fixes a handful of bugs. Most importantly it prevents a background task from blocking the Lemmy server entirely. Edit marks on comments are now hidden if it was edited within 5 minutes of creation. Also the browser cache usage is significantly reduced. Additionally ARM builds are fixed by using the default memory allocator on that platform. Please check the release notes for other updates and of course, let me know if any issues arise! 73, w0odl
lemmy.radio turned 2 today!
We turned 2 today and I have renewed the lemmy.radio domain for another year! We’ve come along way since the great reddit migration. We still see a lot of new users apply weekly. Some stats! - 296 Users - 463 Posts - 3.68k Comments I’ve really enjoyed hosting this service, learning new things, and getting to know everyone. Thanks for making this place amazing. 73, w0odl
(complete) lemmy.radio upgrading to 0.19.12
lemmy.radio upgrading to 0.19.11
lemmy.radio upgrading to 0.19.10
Includes an optional Developer AMA in link provided. Updates include: - Fix Youtube thumbnails by increasing the metadata fetch limit to 1 MB #5266 - Also remove private messages when banning user with “remove content” (goodbye Nicole) #5414 - Ignore accept-language header if no site languages are specified, to avoid that users have English disabled and can’t see most posts #5485 - Enable english for users on instances with all languages enabled, to resolve the above problem #5489 #5493 - Only list local banned users under /admin #5364 - Add crawl-delay to robots.txt #3009 - Optimize migrations which were included in 0.19.6 #5301 As always, let me know if any issues arise! 73, w0odl > Lemmy talk