Edit: Sorry, this week was a bit too annoying to work on this, but the plan is now to do it over the Easter weekend.

There will be another planned down-time this coming weekend as we continue migrating this Lemmy instance to our new server.

Last weekend’s Pict-rs image storage migration resulted in a noticeable performance improvement, and we also already quietly migrated the various front-ends to the new server.

However due the large size of the main Lemmy database and a need to upgrade to PostgreSQL version 16.2 to fix a memory leak issue with it, the down-time will be slightly longer this time. I expect it to last around 3 hours, during which our Lemmy backend will be completely down.

As our XMPP accounts are directly linked to our Lemmy database, it will also not be possible to log into your slrpnk.net XMPP account during this time.

I will probably do a small write up in the next monthly post about the changes to the hardware we did and what performance improvements we expect from it.

All in all, I hope this time the move will be successful and not like last year when we had to revert back to the old server on short notice due to hardware issues. So far the new server runs well though.