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PSA: Pictures are back! (self.support)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Lionir to c/support

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We have to move to object storage to have efficient image storage. We are currently at 70% of our disk storage.

We are sorry for the short notice and we don't know how long it will take though we believe it will take multiple hours.

Small post mortem :

The migration required us to be down - we thought we could run without images
It took much longer than initially anticipated
It broke at close to 2:30AM - 3 hours into the migration and I couldn't fix it so the server has been down doing nothing for hours now
We're booting back up from the backup made before the migration was attempted, we'll try another strategy.

There might've been some data loss in images, we're looking into it. In the meanwhile, if your profile picture or banner is broken, feel free to re-upload them.

Update :

Hi Beeple!

We're trying this again.

This time, Beehaw should remain available though no pictures will be able to be uploaded. The error will likely be weird because Lemmy will think it is possible but we will block the upload from happening.

We'll take a snapshot of the pictures before the migration in 60 minutes at 21:00 UTC - it should take around one hour, do the migration and testing on our own before shipping on Beehaw.

Once we've resolved all these kinks, Beehaw will momentarily go down and then back up with the migration complete without losing any old pictures.

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[–] Lionir 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But then I have to click links!

[–] metaltoilet 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a direct embed feature. I've used it for everything i've posted to reduce load on the servers.

[–] Lionir 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, we do proxy the image so it's just saving on storage costs which after this move will be very cheap. 5$/TB/month.

Good to know for now though :)

[–] psudo 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which object store did you go with for that price? It's been awhile since I looked, but I remember them being more than that.

[–] Lionir 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We've chosen Backblaze B2, it's one of the cheaper options. Wasabi has similar pricing.

[–] Haatveit 7 points 1 year ago

Not that anyone asked, but as a long time user, Baxkblaze is great. Good choice I think!

[–] _MusicJunkie 4 points 1 year ago

Would be cool to know the traffic costs a few months after y'all have implemented object storage.

[–] aka_oscar 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that mean we can now upload images directly to beehaw? I mean we always could but it wasnt the ideal option. It sounds like storage is not a user concern anymore.

[–] Gaywallet 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe if you're regularly donating 😉

seriously tho we'll turn off image hosting if it becomes an issue, but being aware that there is a cost to hosting images on this site is never a bad thing