Sometime early this morning, our database started having issues, most likely due to a disk corruption issue.
Unfortunately the postgres database was unrecoverable, and we had to restore from a nightly backup, so a few hours of posts and comments will be missing.
Apologies again for the downtime, and for the disruption.
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Oh holy cow, those servers are running at some pretty high temps!
That’s the power of optimized rust 🦀🦀
Do you know that you are doing to me?! I actually had to work while lemmy was down…
no kidding. this particular FWP was… unpleasant.
Awesome that it’s back up! Thanks for all your hard work
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No worries, glad to hear you got it up and running again :)
How does lemmy federation work in this case? Conceivably after being restored from backup the lemmy.ml instance could see those few hours of lost history as federated to other lemmy instances and resync it back as the host instance. Obv I’m vastly oversimplifiying things but what happens today?
I believe they’re lost, as recieved apub content doesn’t have the original post / comments, but I’m not totally sure. cc @nutomic@lemmy.ml
That doesnt work because we generally cant trust remote servers. Plus we dont even know where to fetch from, so wed have to run a complete crawl of all known instances which isnt practical.
No worries! Is there an announcement anywhere in case it’s down? Mastodon? Matrix?
We posted in some of the lemmy matrix chats, but ya we should also use our mastodon too.
Yep.
it’d be helpful to post to sth like masto yeah, as its much more public facing than matrix.
I AM TALKING IN ALL CAPS BECAUSE I AM MAD
HOW DARE THIS FREE SERVICE I USE GO DOWN HOW EVER WILL I POST MEMES FROM MY OPAL THRONE
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
also thank you for hosting us and working on the issue!When I saw LemmyMl was down I went to sleep and had a dream where I was eating extremely large fries that that were labeled on the fryholder “Sadistically Large” (chicken fries as well as potato fries) and drinking probiotic shakes so dangerous they literally had to be bundled with a free antibiotic shake by law which of course I took one sip of in front of the clerk to calm them down before guzzling the other shake down with impunity. Woke up before I found find out what the burger was. Maybe those anti-woke types are on to something.
Welcome back!
So happy it’s back!
Only was a cable
I saw the “502 Gateway” HTTP error message, but I never even closed my browser tab. I refreshed again today and Lemmy.ml was back online! Thanks for your hard work!
