Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed.
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Reread it. They're saying "The slowest part is postgres, so even if python is slower than rust it won't make a difference."
That is, in theory. In practice, it can make a big difference. Source: Worked professionally with large services built in Python and Rust.
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If you rent rack space, you can at least call the DC to send someone to reboot it or smt.
Sure, but they will not replace hardware and set up remote access for you, which seems like this would have been required in this case.
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What is so special about piefed? I see a few communities moving there. The interface looks different from the original lemmy interface.
For regular users there is not a huge difference, but the web-interface is significantly faster and you can subscribe to topics that combine multiple communities. The disadvantage is less mobile app support. Right now only Interstellar supports Piefed.
The real advantage is for moderators and admins, as the Piefed developers actually listened to community feedback and implemented a lot of nice moderation features that require bots or annoying work-arounds on Lemmy.
And there are a few technical differences that make Piefed easier to administrate and troubleshoot from a sysadmin perspective.
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That is, in theory. In practice, it can make a big difference. Source: Worked professionally with large services built in Python and Rust.
Yes, I also suspect that at a certain scale it would make a difference, but with a single Postgres database and no advanced clustering or so, the real-life performance metrics of a medium sized Lemmy instance strongly point to Postgres being the bottleneck and not the Python or Rust codebase of the rest of the software.
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"unforseen hardware failure"
somebody didn't check their backups!
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"unforseen hardware failure"
somebody didn't check their backups!
The backups are most likely fine
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The backups are most likely fine
yes, that's why it's been down for this long...
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Slrpnk.net is unexpectatly back online 🥳
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You underestimate the userbase. I made a temp account in the mean time, but we are a hyper tight knit community. We will probably lose accounts - no question - but the core userbase will return
Time to come back, it is working again. Lucky break
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Time to come back, it is working again. Lucky break
Thanks for the speed and the work !
