Hey everyone, so as I’m sure everyone is aware Lemmy.World has been experiencing several outages throughout the last few days.

We have been investigating the root cause of these outages but believe that they are related to our current hosting provider (Hetzner) blocking access from ClouldFlare as (we think) they believe that our CDN is a DDoS’er, and is causing these disconnects to our backend server, problematic for sure.

We’ve opened support tickets with our current provider and are awaiting a response. We have no issue with being as transparent as possible with downtime. Anyone that is curious, can feel free to check out https://status.lemmy.world and https://dash.lemmy.world for up to the minute outage information. We are also looking into other fediverse friendly methods of posting status and outage updates

In the meantime, we are evaluating alternative hosting options and solutions to provide a high level of reliability to you, our users. Really, we want to say thanks to everyone for soldiering through all our technical growing pains.

Cheers

  • LW Infra Team
  • Boozilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2336·
    1 year ago

    Whenever I get frustrated by the outages I remind myself: still better than reddit.

    • Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world
      883·
      1 year ago

      Thanks to lemmy I don’t doom scroll anymore because either there is an outage or I read all the new content I’m subscribed to in 10-20 minutes

      • GONADS125@lemmy.world
        29·
        1 year ago

        That’s mostly how I redditted for years. It was mostly for those moments in between things, on the toilet, laying in bed at night. Not something I did for long periods of time.

      • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
        92·
        1 year ago

        Huh, I could keep up with my daily feeds before, now not so much.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          It’s your fault for not pitching in and making lemmy more stable.

          Plot twist: unlike Reddit, with Lemmy that would be a legitimate option! Ain’t Free Software and federated networks grand?

        • shastaxc@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 year ago

          What is the burden if I wanted to host a node and limit access just to myself? Is it just a portal into the rest of the fediverse or is there a large maintenance burden or storage requirement?

    • malloc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      I fallback to one of the many instances that federate with lw. Don’t get frustrated at all bro