lemmy.radio will be down for up to an hour starting at 00:00 UTC 03/26/2026
This is needed for server maintenance. I’ll post here again when we are up and discuss the updates!
~ w0odl
lemmy.radio (un)scheduled downtime
Submitted 2 days ago by w0odl@lemmy.radio to lemmy@lemmy.radio
w0odl@lemmy.radio 2 days ago
Thanks for putting up with the (un)scheduled downtime!
A status update: for the past 2 years, we have operated using a fairly large size VPS using Akamai/Linode. To be specific, we were using:
This was mostly due to the the large amounts of images, videos, media that we accumulate over the years we’ve been up and running (we’re going to be turning 3 years old very soon btw!)
A few months ago, to help with the large costs of running this site, I moved all of our media to object storage, which TREMENDOUSLY cut down our drive space usage. And…
Today is the day, I actually scaled us back to a “smaller” VPS to help cut down on prices further. We are currently using:
So let’s talk turkey about savings (if you care)
This drops our server fees from about ~$175/month to around ~$90/month
This is the price of the VPS, object storage, .radio domain, and email services we use.
Thank you for putting up with the hour or so we were down. I’m hoping that this will keep us running WELL into the future.
Cheers and 72,
w0odl
667@lemmy.radio 2 days ago
As always, thank you for shouldering the burdens of administering the instance. While I know you’ve said no before to financial contributions—I, and probably others—would still be happy to contribute, even if only to cover the amount equal to your hosting costs.