Is there a way to find a local server with reliable uptime?
lemmy.fediverse.observer
I've been having a lot of lag on lemmy.world lately, moreso during certain times of the day. I'm not sure if this is because of geographic location or just burden on the server.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list shows a list of all servers and their uptime but does not give how long a server has been online. Uptime is a somewhat unreliable measure of reliability because they might have only been online for a day.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map gives the closest server but most local servers have only 1-4 users and there is no way to gauge whether those servers are reliable or trustworthy.
Is there a tool to find the closest server with a reliable uptime over a period of months with at least >100 users?
You can always self host
https://blog.colic.io/2023/07/07/self-hosting-lemmy-a-step-by-step-guide-with-docker-compose/
long term I'd like to, but it requires some investment in dedicated hardware, and I'm guessing getting a domain is not free typically either. How much does it cost to setup and operate a basic server month to month?
You can get a raspberry pi 4 or greater to run Lemmy and use this site to calculate the power cost
If I ran one at home power would be €8 a year to run the pi 24/7 with a fan. Then however much you pay a year for a domain.
!selfhosted@lemmy.world will have a tonne more resources for hosting your instance plus how to secure it.
You can use a small VPS for a low traffic instance. $5/month would get you started. Domain is around $10/year depending.
Join us at lemmy.ca
lemmy.sdf.org is rock solid. I have an account there for when feddit.de has issues.
lol, it's actually down right now. https://web.archive.org/web/20231118221157/https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/lemmy.sdf.org.html
Says it's been down for a week
They updated to 19.0-rc5 some days ago. Might have been accidentally and now it messed up their database or something, idk
Before that I didn't have a single moment where I couldn't browse Lemmy via their instance
how do you find out where they are geographically located? I see they're in the US from the fediverse.observer list but it doesn't explain what state they're in. The server could still be 3000 miles away depending on what state it is.
Does that matter?
Latency between the coasts is like 50ms. You're probably not going to notice that.
Lemmy.world is looking for unpaid ops help. Are you volunteering?
https://lemmy.world/post/8054956
why would i be volunteering? I'm having lag problems with the server because of it's geographic location in the Netherlands, what does that have to do with volunteering as a mod? lol
The volunteer opening I linked is for a junior ops engineer. There is a separate opening for a mod. The ops engineer position is to help keep the servers running. If you want a server to stay reliable, you need people doing that.
ah. But at the same time it would be good if Lemmy was not as centralized on a single server. Lemmy.world is most of Lemmy at the moment, and when it goes down almost every other server is a snapshot frozen in time.
I think it would be good if there were better tools to find closer servers (like geographically <1000km ) and to spread the fediverse out a bit.
Part of the ops engineering effort (if the person is up to it) could be improving the software for higher reliability. The improvements could then be used on other instances as well.