Kaity A (@supakaity)
blahaj.zone
**State of the ~~nation~~ instance** So over the last month our instances have grown substantially and while Ada and I are privileged enough to be able to cover the cost of the small instance we initially envisioned, what it has become is somewhat bigger than that. The Lemmy side of things is currently at 6,500 users and is hosting a larger meme community which involves a lot of image downloads and a fairly substantial bandwidth cost for serving those downloads. As we are hosting on AWS, we pay a premium for all the resources we use and the results of this are that the hosting this month has presented us with a surprise. Our monthly bill has jumped from about $1,000 to about $3,000 a month. (See attached image) Unfortunately while we can manage this as a once off, I can't afford to continue in this fashion, month after month, so we will have to investigate solutions to help reduce operating costs. This will involve moving services off AWS to less premium providers, and the downtime involved while these migrations take place and we retune everything. I apologize in advance for the interruption while we we rejig everything through this process. Thankyou all for understanding. Please let @ada or myself know of any issues that you notice, as glitches may occur when moving things around. $[x2 :Blobhaj_Plead_2:] (📎1)

Discussion of the current situation with the Blåhaj instances, and upcoming maintenance.

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It seems like the images are playing a big role so perhaps having images being offloaded to another service (like catbox.moe) or converting images to WebP with a healthy amount of compression would help.

    Basically decrease the amount of storage you folks are having to pay for.

    Or auto delete pictures after a week or 2 and add a disclaimer about it to when pictures are being uploaded.

    Maybe also a file size limit. Nothing over 10MB or whatever.

    I hope this whole thing can be sorted out I dig this instance.