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Yiffit went down for several hours this afternoon. I am sorry for the disruption and have identified the cause. (yiffit.net)
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Original title: Was the site offline / having problems for anyone else?

Hello, I just came back and noticed that the site wasn't working properly. Was this just me or did anyone else experience problems?

I'm browsing through logs to try find the reason, but it could have been just an issue on my side.

Thank you!

EDIT: I think I might have found the cause. I'll keep investigating. Apologies for the downtime U_U.

EDIT2: I have located a database error which seems to be related to a sudden disconnection / shutdown. After that the database wasn't able to work correctly until I rebooted the server. This can only come from a series of docker commands I ran this afternoon. It is weird that these commands don't shut down the database container gracefully, but I'll take extra precautions next time.

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[โ€“] WalterLatrans@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't notice any downtime of course as I would have been asleep at the time haha. I just wanted to jump in here and say that I really appreciate all the work you put into running this instance and maintaining it's content. I know it is early days and the lemmy software isn't super stable or easy to work with, not to mention the monetary aspect of the costs of the server time.

I'm just happy there's somewhere non-commercial I can go now to see my strange combination of yiff, news, and memes. I'm sure we can all tolerate a bit of downtime here and there, so try not to worry about it too much when it happens. We know you can't be available 24/7 so some downtime is inevitable, try not to fret about it too much when it happens. And for goodness sake don't overwork yourself and get the burnout, I'm pretty sure that's happened to several of the larger instance admins so far, I'd hate to see you befallen the same fate.

[โ€“] Wander@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

hugs thank you for caring ^^