I’ve been noticing reddthat going down for a short time (a few minutes or so) more than before - is everything okay?

https://lestat.org/status/lemmy shows our uptime at 88.82% right now - not horrible, but not great either. We of course stunt need to be up 99.9999% of the time, but still.

Is there anything we can help with besides donating? I like it here, so I want to make sure this place stays up for a long time 👍

    • Tiff@reddthat.comMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I dont remember it happening in 0.17 but that was back when we had websockets! So everything was inherently more synchronous.

      0.18.3 has “database optimisations” which apparently also results in 80% space savings . (Like wtf, how could we save 80%!!!).

      Anyway I’ll be testing that on the dev server tonight and then I’ll plan a maintenance window.

      • dartos@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Wait they removed websocket support?!?! Why?

        How were things more synchronous with websockets?

        • Tiff@reddthat.comMEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I think the websocket support was “clunky”, and it resulted in weird things happening.

          Because all the clients were on a websocket everything was sent immediately to the clients from the server, and you didn’t need to “wait” for the long running queries.

          But that only really affects admin/mods. The current system is a lot better! And since 0.18.3 the db optimisation has helped! Removing a user and all their content didn’t take as long now and the changes I made for extra horizontal scaling really helped.