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?
lemmy-world.statuspage.io/#month
They do a lot to be transparent and monitor availability.
There is an big usage jump before Xmas, I assume because of the recent lemmy version upgrade that many admins are saying uses more resources.
Give em some time, I’m sure there will be a patch soon.
Best part of the fediverse is you can just use a less popular server until things calm down.
dipshit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
volunteer run and volunteer paid servers sometimes go down. you may not be used to this happening with large, for-profit websites.
SlothMama@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I remember when ‘literally’ wasn’t the only adverb people knew.
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I remember the “by what right do you exclude the population” video when Reddit was done. Good times long before the enshittification.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
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.
ad_on_is@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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
dipshit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I totally understand, and it’s a valid concern. Without knowing anything about the admins who run this instance, it’s entirely possible that monitoring isn’t in place, or it is in place but notifications aren’t setup, or that is the case but people can’t respond to problems because they are at their day job, or they are responding to problems but solving those problems takes hours… I’m 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.