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On June 19, 2023, I setup scaling for the environment. My experience doing this is with AWS; however, I host this service with DigitalOcean. The good news is I now understand how DigitalOcean Load Balancers work. The bad news is I had intermittent outages throughout the day.

Sorry, I'll do better.

• jgrim

I noticed some random slowness when using the web client. It looks like the web client's backend is significantly CPU hungry. I decided to segregate the front-end and back-end clients. I can already tell a significant difference.

Here is an update from the core developers of Limmy. It addresses a lot of open questions and concerns by the community. It's a great read.

The good news is there is a beta site running a newer version of the Lemmy front-end at beta.discuss.online.

The bad news is I took the site down for like one hour trying to work out the nginx configuration. Whoops.

Sorry for the outage!

Discuss.online is ready to scale. I have separated services into dedicated nodes.

I had set up object storage for image uploads. Dedicated database cluster. This all costs more but helps prevent a significant outage if there is sudden growth.

Other communities had to react to a large influx. I thought I'd get ahead of it to keep you all happy!

Be sure to share with your friends! We're ready for them here at discuss.online!

A matrix instance has been setup for the domain discuss.online. This allows the user of usernames like @jgrim:discuss.online.

The consideration is to offer a matrix username and server access for each member of discuss.online.

This service is still in beta and heavily manual. If you wish to access the discuss.online matrix instance, please ping me directly. The automation of signing up will come soon; however, no release date has been set yet.

Hello,

Currently, community creation is open. Until there is an unreasonable amount of local communities, it will remain open to help grow the instance.

Please, share, create, & discuss!

Hello and welcome,

This is the first post of discussion.online. I'm hoping it's one of many.

I discovered the power & freedom of federated content while using Matrix & Mastodon. I have been sparingly working on a federated social site for a few years. Starting this community would be a great way to start something and learn.

Reddit has lost its appeal for me. I no longer want to doom scroll nonsense and repeated content. I hope the communities within The fediverse fill the gap and return the internet to the people.

There is a shift. I'm part of it. Please join me.

-Jason