So after we’ve extended the virtual cloud server twice, we’re at the max for the current configuration. And with this crazy growth (almost 12k users!!) even now the server is more and more reaching capacity.
Therefore I decided to order a dedicated server. Same one as used for mastodon.world.
So the bad news… we will need some downtime. Hopefully, not too much. I will prepare the new server, copy (rsync) stuff over, stop Lemmy, do last rsync and change the DNS. If all goes well it would take maybe 10 minutes downtime, 30 at most. (With mastodon.world it took 20 minutes, mainly because of a typo :-) )
For those who would like to donate, to cover server costs, you can do so at our OpenCollective or Patreon
Thanks!
Is there any way to migrate an account? I signed up to lemmy.ml since it was the first one in the list and I didn’t really understand the model initially.
No, or not yet. You don’t lose that much by moving though
You lose all that sweet sweet karma!
I am using and typing on lemmy.ml right now. What I did to subscribe Lemmy.world is go to lemmy and use the search bar, copy and paste this !lemmyworld@lemmy.world