w0odl
@w0odl@lemmy.radio
I’m either in my shack or in the mountains (or posting here)
Alt posting account: @BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio
- Comment on Turning off new instance applications 2 weeks ago:
opening applications back up
- Comment on Turning off new instance applications 2 weeks ago:
probably because we have signups as open (but with email verification). I imagine the bot searches instances with open signups and tries to create accounts. It’s public information that it’s open so easy to script.
Each account bot kept trying with:
Hi! I’m a developer interested in decentralized platforms. I’d love to join to follow tech discussions. Thanks!
Around 60 over the past 2 days.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to lemmy@lemmy.radio | 4 comments
- Comment on lemmy.radio upgrading to 0.19.20 5 weeks ago:
being a lemmy instance maintainer is hard work and learning lol.
- Comment on lemmy.radio upgrading to 0.19.20 5 weeks ago:
The site is up and running but I’ll sort of live comment on my work: Anubis has some tuning that I’m trying to work on to let good things in and ignore the bad. That’s what bit us in the butt a few weeks ago. I had it too high strung and it ignored large instances like lemmy.world pinging us 100s of times per minute.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to lemmy@lemmy.radio | 2 comments
- Comment on [outage] Comments not showing 1 month ago:
output from my backlog script as of 8/22/2026 11:07 Central
Instance Last delivered activity Failures Behind lemmy.world 2026-08-15 16:52:49 0 6d 23h 12m hexbear.net 2026-08-22 16:04:21 0 up to date sh.itjust.works 2026-08-22 16:04:24 0 up to date programming.dev 2026-08-22 16:03:57 0 up to date lemmy.ca 2026-08-22 16:04:06 0 up to date sopuli.xyz 2026-08-22 16:04:53 0 up to date feddit.org 2026-08-22 16:04:16 0 up to date discuss.tchncs.de 2026-08-22 16:03:27 0 up to date lemmy.zip 2026-08-22 16:04:46 0 up to date Lemmy.world is just a monster. It’ll take a day at least to fill the backlog from it.
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- Comment on lemmy.radio turns 3 today! 4 months ago:
I also realize lemmy supports cake day! Is there anyone here that joined on day 1? If so, HAPPY CAKE DAY!
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- Comment on lemmy.radio (un)scheduled downtime 6 months ago:
I’ve been thinking about this comment a lot lately, and I think I’m going to open my mind to contributions.
More to come, but I think I’ve had it squared in my mind to take the brunt of the payments/hosting. But I think that if people want to help in this manner, it’d be rude of me to stop them and may make people think I’m “cutting them out” of what lemmy.radio is.
I want this to be a public instance (for hams) and I’d love for people to contribute in any way they want.
Definitely open to suggestions. I was looking at opencollective.com to help facilitate.
- Comment on lemmy.radio (un)scheduled downtime 6 months 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:
- 16GB ram
- 8 CPUs
- 320GB drive
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:
- 8GB ram
- 4 CPUs
- 160GB drive
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
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- Comment on lemmy.radio upgrading to 0.19.9 11 months ago:
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