As you might have noticed, we’ve been experiencing repeated crashes and downtimes for the last 12 hours or so. This was because, after four long and tireless months, our storage drive had finally filled its 50GB capacity.

I noticed this today, at around 9:00 UTC and quickly took action. Fortunately we had already prepared a different partition with an additional 15GB ready for situations of this kind. It took me some additional 40 minutes of tinkering to move the database to said partition, but after that the instance was back online without any majour issues.

This is our current storage breakdown:

• Secondary partition (currently: 10 GB; max capacity: 15GB)

  • Database (postgres): 10GB

• Main partition (currently: 38GB; max capacity: 50GB)

  • Image hosting (pict-rs): 23GB
  • Lemmy executables, other services (Kaleidoscope, AutoMod, Flair) and operating system: 15GB

Of these, the only ones expected to grow are the database and the image hosting, with the latter being by far the fastest growing.

In the future we are considering moving pict-rs to a separate, more cost effective storage, however for the time being this should hold. We apologize for the disservice in the last hours.

Cheers and stay Based!