I love the concept of the blahaj zone, however, I’ve noticed it goes down quite often and I get left stuck on 504 Bad Gateway errors that I don’t get from my secondary account, which is on a different instance.

If it’s due to costs or traffic, the instance owner needs to set up a donation link or otherwise, I would gladly chip in!

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneM
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    It’s not a matter of money, it’s a matter of available time.

    The Lemmy instance is sharing hardware at the moment, and we need to move it to a dedicated server.

    We’re aiming to do that today.

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    102K users online for the main page, 15k just on 196. The other main instances report similar numbers. 30 days ago, this server had less than 100. So yeah.

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    Unfortunately scaling infrastructure isn’t just a matter of throwing money at the problem, though I’m sure money can help!

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    It’s not just you.

    And the lovely server admins have said they’re thinking about accepting donations, but so far are happy to absorb the cost for the time being. :)

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      That’s wonderfully generous of them.

      However, through this instance, the site is practically unusable at times. I want to see the community grow! The constant errors are frustrating, so I hope it doesn’t detract anyone. I just wish there was more I could do. </3

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          Ha, as I was trying to read this comment I got a whole new error!

          404: TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘comment’)

          I hope Blahaj and in turn Lemmy will keep up, and I don’t think they necessarily need donations if they are certain of holding the costs, but we certainly need a server upgrade!

          Blahaj Gold… I can only imagine.

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    It looks like there are some issues going on today, the performance on the past few days has been good.

    And it looks like it is not only the Lemmy instance that is having trouble.