I have ordered a more powerful machine for our database server from Hetzner last evening, but they still haven't provisioned it. It seems we're doomed to experience these processing delays until I can get my hands on more hardware. Sorry!
@Gargron Huh same here..
Requested higher limits but still waiting 
Hope Hetzner gets working now though the holiday should be over today.
@RyuukaShinrai @stux @Gargron The holiday in Bavaria is today, November 1st. The holiday yesterday is mainly in the north of Germany, and has not been observed in Bavaria.
@Gargron Hi! Do you need help with hosting? I can hook you up with a great and very professional hosting company if you want 
let me know!
@Gargron Carry on! You do a very great job!
@Gargron It's ok.
@Gargron it's okay, you do what you can do and that's great!
@angel_undercover @Gargron Agreed! Working fine for me, though I wouldn't consider "heavy" user. I'm mostly just text.
@Gargron mach dir bitte keinen stress! Wir sind dir sehr dankbar für deine Arbeit!
@Gargron um die Server zu entlasten, können die User einfach einen anderen Server wählen (so wie ich heute). Das ist ja der große Vorteil von diesem System.
@Gargron not your fault. 
@Gargron Growing pains :-) If we stood with twitter during the fail whale period, these small glitches are just minor inconveniences.
Thank you :-)
@jonasnuts you know I had forgotten totally the fail whales. Good reminder that scaling is hard but doesn't stop a good thing growing! @Gargron
@Gargron no worries but you've created something unequivocal
@Gargron Hetzner is pretty amazing for what one pays… but yeah I’ve also had week long provisioning delays for dedicated servers especially during peak Covid. Hope it comes soon!
@Gargron You're doing a great job 
@Gargron take your time, you're doing the good work.
@Gargron why hetzner?
@Gargron do you have any horizontal scaling strategies ? The image processing problem you mentioned recently seems to be an easy parallelizable issue.
Manu
Carrasco Molina @Gargron Maybe we should think of a way for people to go somewhere else than _everybody_ on mastodon.social?
And there are so many instances to choose from, it might overwhelm people who then just opt for the biggest/oldest...@bumblebeedc Yup I totally understand that. I myself first used a mastodon.social account in 2018. We need to find an incentive to better share the weight on the servers/instances.
@bumblebeedc @manu @Gargron My few cents:
1. I agree that mastodon.social should stay as a viable option for those who really can't decide for anything else. Otherwise some people might stay away simply because the can't decide.
2. Users of mastodon.social should pay (or pay more), so professional staff can be paid for the server hosting and moderation. If all depends on Eugen, the development of Mastodon suffers.
@marian @bumblebeedc @manu @Gargron they should pay if they can
@marian @bumblebeedc @Gargron one way could be, that mastodon.social not always the first choice is.
@bumblebeedc @Gargron @manu I checked and it's not.
@Gargron What's the infrastructure for fosstodon like? I'm a platform engineer, maybe I can help.
@Gargron thank you for everything & all the work you have put into this. 
@Gargron Shoulda built it on mongo. It's web scale.
@shoeberto ooohh, that's a deep cut. Only the old ones remember... @Gargron
@Gargron thanks for your awesome work!
@Gargron appreciate what you are doing!
@Gargron hang in there and keep up the great work! These are the best kind of problems to have 
nske @Gargron Take your time, it seems to be working well so far. you are doing a great job :) delivery delays happen during the chip shortage times.
@Gargron I don't see any slowdown, take your time and thank you for the time spent on your Mastodon server.
@Gargron Crikey!
I've recently been hitting the limit on my Scaleway VPS, and , because its a legacy package, I can't expand it, and they want far too much for a new server.
Hetzner is charging similar prices to what i pay now, but with more performance!
Might look at switching over!
Thanks for that!
@Gargron 
Thank you for your dedication, work and most importantly the result of your efforts.
@Gargron No need for apologies! Thanks!
@Gargron what would be the best way to see how Mastodon is growing after Musk has bought Twitter?
@Gargron if you can swing it infrastructure and network wise, maybe it could be useful to spin up some temporary instances on equinix or similar while waiting on hetzner?
their pricing is by the hour (and deploy in minutes), so might be a good fit to run for a few days or weeks?
@Gargron You're doing a great and responsive job. We'll be patient.
@Gargron No problem. Thnx for your work. Hope my small patreon money will help a little bit.
@Gargron *keep calm and carry on* das wird schon.. war ja nicht unbedingt abzusehen das alle jetzt auf einmal Twitter die kehrseite mit den 5 buchstaben zeigen und dir/euch hier die Bude einrennen...
lieber die neue kiste mit klarem Kopf zusammenschrauben als mit stress im unterbewusstsein *erfahrungswerte*
Du schaffst das schon 
@Gargron Thank you for all your hard work in the crisis. I'm delighted to see Mastodon grow and I hope you will be, too, after you get some sleep.
@Gargron I keep my fingers crossed!
@Gargron Don't be sorry. We are grateful for your efforts.
@Gargron out of interest, do you use root server or cloud instances at Hetzner?
@Gargron It's OK, Eugen. We understand how the unexpected load can affect performance.
It's still much better than the early days in Twitter, with all those flying whales.
We can wait.
@Gargron You're doing a great job! No apologies necessary.
@Gargron on behalf of Twitter migration users, bless you for your help.
@Gargron @Mastodon now has a Patreon account with memberships starting at $1/month. A great way keep the platform growing! 
#mastodon #patreon #SupportMastodon
https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
@austinkocher @Gargron @Mastodon
"There is no such thing as free lunch"
I joined now, supporting with a monthly payment.
@Gargron I am very aware what it means to scale infrastructure in such a situation. Surprised that you use hetzner. One of the hyperscalers (datacenter in Germany) would work faster. But that doesn't help you now. Appreciate your work!
@Gargron
Desperate times call for desperate actions. I’d be happy to live without pictures until you get new equipment. Can you turn off expensive features like uploading pics? #MastoSurvival
@Gargron thanks, we know you're doing your best.
@Gargron you need a #mainframe