Concerns about lemmy.world
The instance has been down several times over the past few days?
Is there some ongoing maintenance, or are we doomed to face the same as feddit.uk?
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The instance has been down several times over the past few days?
Is there some ongoing maintenance, or are we doomed to face the same as feddit.uk?
volunteer run and volunteer paid servers sometimes go down. you may not be used to this happening with large, for-profit websites.
I literally remember when sites like Reddit, Amazon, and even Google went down. We're so used to crazy uptimes that it's easy to forget that real servers and infrastructure have real problems.
I remember when 'literally' wasn't the only adverb people knew.
๐ถ โShe is literally the Polaroid of perfectionโฆโ ๐ถ
I remember the "by what right do you exclude the population" video when Reddit was down. Good times long before the enshittification.
Edit: here's the video: https://youtu.be/KqRPOEa3P44?si=d5k94eccnJz7SauS
Who'd have guessed that volunteers without big bags of cash usually only actually have one or two actual servers running and they somehow can't afford a whole fleet of failover servers for when traffic gets too high.
Actually, I'm more used to the big sites going down, than small ones, but considering the fact that they are well-fed to come back online, compared to volunteer projects, just gave me some concerns
I totally understand, and itโs a valid concern. Without knowing anything about the admins who run this instance, itโs entirely possible that monitoring isnโt in place, or it is in place but notifications arenโt setup, or that is the case but people canโt respond to problems because they are at their day job, or they are responding to problems but solving those problems takes hours.. Iโm speaking from personal experience running smaller projects for others. I was always very thankful to have users who understood these concerns, and I guess I try to gently remind users about the realities of the volunteer-run projects.