I started lemdro.id. Pretty cool domain name, right?

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Cake day: June 29th, 2023
Lemdroid@lemdro.idbycole@lemdro.id
3 months

[Update] Recent outage

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Sorry about that. Our hosting provider went down.

At the moment our architecture looks roughly like this:

  • Lemmy backed on a OneProvider VPS
  • everything else hosted at Fly.io (we heavily rely on the private networking that fly.io provides, they rock!)

In the future, I’m planning on moving Lemmy backend and pictrs to live in my basement. I have a 1 gig symmetric connection with a backup failover, so I honestly think it’ll be more reliable than these cheap hosting providers and it will be cheaper.

Just want to give a quick update on what’s happened and how we’ll fix it going forward!

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    Lemdroid@lemdro.idbycole@lemdro.id
    7 months

    Recent Slowdowns

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    Hi! I know lemdro.id has been a bit slower than usual lately. I’m working to move us to totally dedicated hardware to mitigate this.

    Expect early January, although I will make efforts to speed us up on our existing hosting provider.

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      • cole@lemdro.idtoProgramming@programming.dev•Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skilsEnglish
        11 months

        hey, I love this idea, but we tried it and we kept getting candidates who managed to BS their way onsite and then waste our time ultimately.

        it just didn’t work. I really want it to work because I hated live coding too but it just didn’t.

        you can make live coding interviews that aren’t actually difficult questions and are more about showing that you can think and write the most basic of code. that’s what we do now.

      Lemdroid@lemdro.idbycole@lemdro.id
      1 year

      Maintenance Tonight

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      UPDATE DAY 2: backend has successfully been migrated onto new dedicated hosting after some pain. there should not be major downtime from here on. tomorrow I will be working on integrating a better backup solution and then I’ll leave it alone for a little while.

      UPDATE: I was able to deploy the database onto dedicated server hardware tonight, but have not finished moving over the other components I wanted to. You may notice a performance degradation due to increased database-backend latency (…or maybe it will just be better anyways, lol).

      I will finish off work on this tomorrow!

      Lemdro.id has been struggling with some performance issues lately, as you’ve likely noticed. This is due to changes made by our hosting provider that causes the database to run much slower. Tonight at 10pm PST, I will be putting lemdro.id into maintenance mode to migrate some parts of the infrastructure to a new dedicated server.

      Thanks for your patience!

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