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Re:Post mortem on mastodon outage with 30k users (hachyderm) by VWWHFSfQ on Sunday December 04, 2022 @01:08PM (#33856040)
Yeah and take a look at the hardware specs that was hosting this thing. And the site fell over at 30k users??? something is wrong with the software.
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Re:Post mortem on mastodon outage with 30k users (hachyderm) by CharlesW on Sunday December 04, 2022 @01:30PM (#33856240)
When you RTFA, you'll learn that the site didn't fall over because of the Mastodon software.
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Re:Post mortem on mastodon outage with 30k users (hachyderm) by rbanffy on Sunday December 04, 2022 @03:46PM (#33857697)
It’s very hard to scale when your persistent storage is failing and timing out.
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