Well, whew again! The influx of new users into Sopuli surprised not only me, but also Hetzner's VPS. The disk space ran out fast, and Sopuli was down today for many hours because of this. I was busy with work, which didn't help with the issue.
I bought extra disk space from Hetzner, and the founder of brand new Lemmy instance https://lemmy.world !ruud@lemmy.world helped to use it on the VPS. Really big thanks for him! Apologies to both new and old users, hopefully this will not happen again. Happy weekend, everyone!
Edit 03.06.2023: Now there is 80 GB of extra disk space for Sopuli, apparently 40 wasn't enough. In addition to extra space I also bought peace of mind. Sopuli was again offline but no more!
No huh huh taas! Uusien käyttäjien tungos Sopuliin yllätti minun lisäksi myös Hetznerin VPS:n. Levytila kävi nopeasti loppuun, ja Sopuli oli tänään alhaalla monta tuntia. Asiaa eivät paljoakaan auttaneet työkiireet.
Ostin Hetzneriltä lisää levytilaa, ja ihkauuden https://lemmy.world -instanssin perustaja !ruud@lemmy.world auttoi minua ottamaan sen VPS:llä käyttöön. Todella paljon kiitoksia hänelle! Pahoittelut sekä uusille että vanhoille käyttäjille, toivottavasti tämä ei tule toistumaan. Hyvää viikonloppua kaikille!
Muokkaus 03.06.2023: Nyt ylimääräistä levytilaa Sopulia varten on 80 gigatavua, 40 ei ollutkaan tarpeeksi. Lisätilan lisäksi ostin myös mielenrauhaa. Sopuli oli taas alhaalla mutta ei enää!
Out of curiosity, how much disk space does this instance use? It doesn't seem like there's an extreme amount of users/posts/comments based on what I can see from the "Communities" page.
From what you describe it seems this small instance uses a few gigabytes of disk space already?
Or does it maybe have to do with the federation of other instances? Do their posts/comments also have to be stored locally in sopuli's instance's database?
Posts and comments are all text, so they take barely any space at all. Posts from remote instances are also stored in the local database. However images are a much bigger factor, and Docker also takes a lot of space for some reason.
I did so that out of 80 GB half is allocated for Sopuli and the other half for Docker. Before extending disk space again and running
ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts lemmy.yml --become, Docker had eaten all of the 20 GB extra disk space like Nikocado Avocado. Now after running the command and getting 40GB of extra disk space each, Docker uses only 1.4 GB (4 %) of it. Sopuli uses now 10 GB (27 %).