Lemmy, in particular lemmy.ml, is so good that I've got completely used to checking it out almost every hour to enjoy the content. Kudos to all the mods and developers ❤️
Recently, in the past few weeks, I couldn't help but notice that momentary outages of lemmy.ml, ranging from a couple of mins to longer than 30mins, have become more frequent.
Is my observation correct? Or I'm just addicted to Lemmy? 😂
If it is correct, have we got any idea what are the possible causes of the outages? In particular, I'd like to know if there's anything that I, as a member of this safe & welcoming community, can do to potentially help ¹.
On a related note, if the outages are of such a nature that may be predicted but not prevented (such as routine maintenance restart, load-testing or new feature deploy), do you folks think it makes sense to have a post here in "meta" at least a few mins prior to the action?
¹ I've got about a quarter of a century experience dealing w/ code and systems.
As always, the best support is to donate to you instance. Servers are expensive and improving reliability will increase hosting cost.
That's a good sign of support and I've already done that 😎 Honestly the quality of the software and the friendliness of the community made it a no-brainer for me only a few days after logging in for the first time.
That said, I think there's more I can do than my humble donation - I've got plenty of, hopefully, relevant experience under my belt and am eager to put it to good use for Lemmy.
Definitely 💯
What I was trying to get at in my post was not rather improve the hardware or ask lemmy.ml folks to sweat more for free. By the gods, no! Rather I was suggesting that maybe w/ a couple of, hopefully, easy and not time consuming moves we could up our level at lemmy.ml. Though I realised what I was talking about, wasn't among the main concerns of the community. Which is totally reasonable.