we accidentally did the upgrade just now, which is what you just experienced. anyways we’re at like double the power and processing, and three times the storage we were previously at so yeah hopefully that’ll be good. anyways i guess i’ll leave this post stickied until i go to sleep in like an hour
If you don’t mind my asking, what hardware were y’all using beforehand? I’m looking to host my own instance, but starting as a noob. I know how to build computers but I’m trying to go further.
Beehaw is hosted on DigitalOcean, not sure what price range at this point as I know it’s been upgraded recently. It’s really easy to spin up one of their “droplets” and get started on a project.
I just got a 14$ droplet with 1 vCPU and 2 gigs of ram with weekly backups. I like their interface and have been happy with it overall so far. Hoping to start up my own lemmy instance for learning purposes, though a bit daunting as apparently the docker instructions are incomplete.
Using Docker is not much harder, actually, at least if you go the docker compose route. You download the docker-compose.yml file, the example config file, and the nginx config file, fill in your domain in the right places, and run docker compose up -d.
The database will provision itself and Lemmy will run all the migrations. Caveat: don’t be a smartass like me, the migrations need the Lemmy user to be a superuser so if you use an existing database, you need to either grant temporary superuser permissions or you need to do some manual migrating.
You need an HTTPS certificate, but if you follow the guide that can be set up in as little as two commands (sudo snap install --classic certbot, sudo certbot -d yourdomain.com).
The only problem I ran into was that somehow my admin account wasn’t activated. I had to manually enable it (docker compose exec -ti postgres psql, update local_user set accepted_application = true).
If you want a challenge, perhaps consider installing Kbin instead. It mostly interoperates with Lemmy and Mastodon (though it uses boosts (“retweets”) rather than likes for upvotes so you may annoy Mastodon people) and it’s more manual work to set up, has more optional features to explore (such as S3 file hosting, which you can combine with self-hosted S3 like Minio if you want even more of a learning experience). It also looks better in my opinion.
As for the droplet: I don’t know your requirements, but I’m hosting most of my stuff on Contabo because it’s a lot cheaper. I probably wouldn’t host a business site on there, but it’s perfect for hobby projects. You can also try Oracle’s free tier*, which has a slightly annoying bandwidth cap of 50mbps but gives you a free/several free (ARM) server(s) with up to 24GB of RAM.
*: Oracle is a terrible company to do business with, make sure not to buy anything from them. After your first month you’ll get a phone call from a marketeer, your special cloud credits disappear, and you can keep using your free servers indefinitely.
Well I’m glad to hear it’s working properly. Will give it a go soon. My only concern is whether I can use traefik with it rather than/with nginx. Can they work together?
I’ve gotten much more comfortable with traefik and would like to use it with my instance. I already default to using compose for my projects so no worries there.
It can work with any reverse proxy. I’ve also ripped out the built-in nginx config myself to make it work with my existing setup.
You can do so by removing/commenting the entries you don’t need in the docker-compose.yml. The project provides an example file for nginx so I’d start by translating that config into traefik config. That should probably do the trick.
I’ve also ripped out the internal networks (and the references to it) so that I don’t need to jump through hoops to connect to the application from my reverse proxy, you may want to consider doing that as well.
I also know pretty much nothing about ansible. And while that could be a learning opportunity in itself, I’d like to challenge myself to get it running through docker. It would be one of the more complex things I’ve set up.
I’m primarily watching from the sidelines and able to test things if needed for you guys, but I can definitely say this sudden influx is such a rare opportunity for us tech folks (SWEs and sysadmins) to get a real look at what breaks when you do a real load/soak test of a service.
Post-mortems are amazing for tech knowledge, so seeing it kind of “live” is even better.
Congrats on the upgrade! Funnily enough, I decided to finally check if my registration was approved, managed to log in, and immediately wasn’t able view the stickied post talking about Beehaw’s vision. Glad I didn’t kill the site like I thought!
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Where do you host ? What are the specs of the server?
https://beehaw.org/post/416496
Here is a post from 8 days ago. I assume it’s now outdated.
Hosted on Digital Ocean.
In that post they had just upgraded from a $12 to $18 per month instance.
I assume it’s a larger instance now
How many activ users do you think can be supported?
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Welp, it still works, so I guess that’s a win. 👍
If you don’t mind my asking, what hardware were y’all using beforehand? I’m looking to host my own instance, but starting as a noob. I know how to build computers but I’m trying to go further.
Beehaw is hosted on DigitalOcean, not sure what price range at this point as I know it’s been upgraded recently. It’s really easy to spin up one of their “droplets” and get started on a project.
I just got a 14$ droplet with 1 vCPU and 2 gigs of ram with weekly backups. I like their interface and have been happy with it overall so far. Hoping to start up my own lemmy instance for learning purposes, though a bit daunting as apparently the docker instructions are incomplete.
Using Docker is not much harder, actually, at least if you go the
docker composeroute. You download thedocker-compose.ymlfile, the example config file, and the nginx config file, fill in your domain in the right places, and rundocker compose up -d.The database will provision itself and Lemmy will run all the migrations. Caveat: don’t be a smartass like me, the migrations need the Lemmy user to be a superuser so if you use an existing database, you need to either grant temporary superuser permissions or you need to do some manual migrating.
You need an HTTPS certificate, but if you follow the guide that can be set up in as little as two commands (
sudo snap install --classic certbot,sudo certbot -d yourdomain.com).The only problem I ran into was that somehow my admin account wasn’t activated. I had to manually enable it (
docker compose exec -ti postgres psql,update local_user set accepted_application = true).If you want a challenge, perhaps consider installing Kbin instead. It mostly interoperates with Lemmy and Mastodon (though it uses boosts (“retweets”) rather than likes for upvotes so you may annoy Mastodon people) and it’s more manual work to set up, has more optional features to explore (such as S3 file hosting, which you can combine with self-hosted S3 like Minio if you want even more of a learning experience). It also looks better in my opinion.
As for the droplet: I don’t know your requirements, but I’m hosting most of my stuff on Contabo because it’s a lot cheaper. I probably wouldn’t host a business site on there, but it’s perfect for hobby projects. You can also try Oracle’s free tier*, which has a slightly annoying bandwidth cap of 50mbps but gives you a free/several free (ARM) server(s) with up to 24GB of RAM.
*: Oracle is a terrible company to do business with, make sure not to buy anything from them. After your first month you’ll get a phone call from a marketeer, your special cloud credits disappear, and you can keep using your free servers indefinitely.
Well I’m glad to hear it’s working properly. Will give it a go soon. My only concern is whether I can use traefik with it rather than/with nginx. Can they work together?
I’ve gotten much more comfortable with traefik and would like to use it with my instance. I already default to using compose for my projects so no worries there.
It can work with any reverse proxy. I’ve also ripped out the built-in nginx config myself to make it work with my existing setup.
You can do so by removing/commenting the entries you don’t need in the docker-compose.yml. The project provides an example file for nginx so I’d start by translating that config into traefik config. That should probably do the trick.
I’ve also ripped out the internal networks (and the references to it) so that I don’t need to jump through hoops to connect to the application from my reverse proxy, you may want to consider doing that as well.
Cheers!
apparently, and I know next to nothing about this, you can use an automated option via Ansible.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible
I also know pretty much nothing about ansible. And while that could be a learning opportunity in itself, I’d like to challenge myself to get it running through docker. It would be one of the more complex things I’ve set up.
I’m primarily watching from the sidelines and able to test things if needed for you guys, but I can definitely say this sudden influx is such a rare opportunity for us tech folks (SWEs and sysadmins) to get a real look at what breaks when you do a real load/soak test of a service.
Post-mortems are amazing for tech knowledge, so seeing it kind of “live” is even better.
Good job folks!
Great job!
It’s ok Beehaw you’re doing your best
They really are like oh my
This looks really cool, did not know images in comments were supported
Beehaw: minds its own business with a couple hundred users, nothing big
Redditors: “Hold my karma.”
Stonks!
🚀➡️🌛
Blame Reddit for the sudden spike.
pointing at the spike like Janet on the Good Place, pointing at the Jeremy Bearimy That’s my cake day!
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Dialup sucked so much.
Congrats on the upgrade! Funnily enough, I decided to finally check if my registration was approved, managed to log in, and immediately wasn’t able view the stickied post talking about Beehaw’s vision. Glad I didn’t kill the site like I thought!
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Nothing makes you sweat like an accidental deployment! Looks like it worked, mark that as a win!
“Wait, why’s the test server getting so much traffic all of a sudden…?”
Can’t get surprise load on test servers if you test in prod!
/taps head
Awesome! Thanks for the transparency
Great job guys. Keep it up!
Damn, that’s some really quick updating. Nice job.
Thanks for the recognition. We aren’t a big silicon valley conglomerate, just a few people trying to make a better service for others.