Infrastructure nerd, gamer, and Lemmy.ca maintainer

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  • Something got into a weird state and restarting either the backend or frontend didn’t help. Taking the entire stack down and then bringing it back up, resolved it.

    It’s weird since it crashed at 1am and at 3am we gradually restart all backend and frontends, so that automatic restart should have fixed it too. All the containers reported healthy, but nginx wasn’t reporting any available frontends.

    I suspect some sort of weird lemmy bug, but we’ll just have to improve monitoring for now and try to debug this more if it happens again.















  • Back in the day (mid/late 90’s), there were private ftp servers that required a ratio. Some of these were run by release groups and hard to get on, some were more public. Couriers would download from one site and upload to another to build their ratio and get access to the good sites.

    Before people figured out you could connect two ftp servers together directly, you would have to download to your computer and reupload. Most people were on dialup, so that was a non trivial time commitment.