Hey all, following the work over the weekend we're now running Lemmy 0.19.4. please post any comments, questions, feedback or issues in this thread.
One of the major features added has been the ability to proxy third party images, which I've enabled. I'll be keeping a closer eye on our server utilisation to see how this goes...
This weekend I'll be working to upgrade AZ to lemmy 0.19.4, which requires changes to some other back end supporting systems.
Expect occasional errors/slowdowns, broken images etc.
Once complete, I'll be making further changes to enable/tweak some of the new features.
UPDATE: one of the back end component upgrades requires dumping and reimporting the entire lemmy database. This will require ~1 hour of total downtime for the site. I expect this to kick off tonight ~9pm Perth time.
UPDATE2: DB dump/re-import going to happen ~6pm Perth time, ie about 10 minutes from this edit.
UPDATGE3: we're back after the postgres upgrade. Next will be a brief outage for the lemmy upgrade itself... after I've had dinner 🙂
UPDATE34: We're on lemmy 0.19.4 now. I'll be looking at new features/settings and playing around with them.
Its been a little while since I posted stuff :)
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Comments:
Not much has changed in quite a while. I still have a cron-job running to restart Lemmy every day due to memory leaks, hopefully this improves with future updates. Outside of that, CPU, memory and network usage are fine.
Object storage usage is growing steadily, but we're a long way from paying more than the monthly minimum Wasabi fee.
The upgrade to lemmy 0.19 has introduced some issues that are being investigated.. but we currently have no fixes for:
~~I've re-enabled 2 hourly lemmy restarts. Hopefully this will help with both issues, though it will result in a disruption to the site around every couple of hours.
When the hourly restarts are disabled I'll unpin this post. As any other issues are identified I'll post them here too. ~~
Update: I've disabled the 2 hourly restart after upgrading to 0.19.2... lets see how this goes...
Update2: no issues seen since the upgrade, looks to have resolved both the memory leak and the federation issues. Hooray :)
I'll be restarting AZ today for an update to lemmy 0.19.
Upgrade complete.
This is a major upgrade, so I expect there to be some issues. Strap in, enjoy the ride.
Expect:
Hi all,
Looks like I'll be visiting Melbourne in winter 2024 for a wedding with my family. Any must-see tourist attractions you can suggest?
We'll definitely be hitting up Melbourne zoo, and maybe Werribee.
Thinking I'll have to hire a car.. though I'd prefer to stay central and use public transport and Uber around when required.
I'm kicking off a storage upgrade on the server, expect it to proceed in the next 15 minutes and be back online shortly after.
Here we are, another month down.. still kicking 😀
As usual I’m stating full dollar figures for simplicity, but they’re all rounded/approximate to the dollar. I’m not an accountant and its close enough for our purposes.
$98 AUD thanks to 13 generous donors
$45 OVH server fees
$10 ($~6 USD)Wasabi object storage
$39 ($25 USD) Domain registration extended to 6th August 2025
= $94
+$486 carried forward from July
+$98 income for August
-$94 expenses paid in August
= $490 current balance
Baseline storage on the server is now at ~70% at the low point of the day, time permitting I'll upgrade shortly to ensure sufficient room for growth. Doubling the current storage will cost an additional ~$12 per month.
to everyone that has contributed to the running costs of the site.
A very special thank you to @Nath@aussie.zone for everything he's doing here, both in public and behind the scenes. Without his help performing admin and moderator activities, this place would be a shambles. I've simply been too busy professionally and personally to pay as much attention as I need to. Thanks Nath, I (and I'm sure everyone else here) appreciate it 🤗
As always, if you have any questions please ask.
@lodion
@aussie.zone