I use cloudflare but China traffic was just all bots/illegitimate traffic and a crazy amount compared to everyone else and excessive rate of requests per second. Hope you are well by the way.

No I mean I cant really justify spending more each month. Already costs like $40 a month to run.

Unsubscribe wait a few minutes and resub to the community after. Its a lemmy thing that sometimes happens.

Main issue at the moment is server performance and its not viable or cost effective to add more resources.

This could be a cool song title: ‘And the post said plutonium pucks, could taste like orange crush’.

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I will post some images of stats sometime soon as it seems alright now - thanks.

I sent an order for a new server spec changes as follows:

6 CPU cores -----> 12 cores 16GB RAM -----> 48GB RAM 400GB disk -----> 500 GB disk CPU speed ~ 2200Mhz - ? will update later when I know

Thanks for making me aware.

Sorry I was busy doing it as you were posting. Seems to have worked.

We are back on 0.19.11

Yeah no worries. We have a matrix chat where these sort of problems are discussed. We note its less of a problem on servers where signup is required to be approved as new accounts cant be created via automation. Some lemmy instances are less restrictive.

Its a known issue which lemmy is working on.

Pleasure. Give voyager a try. The programmer is really good (better than the lemmy devs) so its pretty optimised.

There is a lot of caching and memory management to mask performance so things that are refreshed a lot are quicker than less used processes. I try my best but a unique search query will always be the slowest kind of thing you can do.

Problem I have seen is some lemmy servers spend a lot each month - eg 100-300 per month on hosting - and while obviously things are faster, when donations dry up then they get shut down. This is disruptive to users. This server is fully paid easily by me each month so this is not a danger. Is that better? Maybe, depends on your outlook. Stability vs performance. Maybe one day we will be big enough to upgrade. For now this is working.

Nice.

It was my fault. Its fixed now.

No not really. The server is a $15 month server. On the plus side it has no danger of being shut down. On the bad side its slower than some servers.

If you use voyager app its faster as it goes via the api. You can try that.