Firstly, I really do apologise! CompuVerse has been down for a number of hours now, and I’m really sorry.

I’ll be 100% transparent on this, the server ran out of disk space! This sent it into a sort of “safe mode”, which unfortunately took down CompuVerse.

I have migrated all image storage over to an external server with a large amount more storage.

However, even with this, just the text content and metadata for CompuVerse is still rather large.

I’m going to investigate solutions but am averse to running a DB server over mounted storage as this is very susceptible to latency and speeds.

By my approximations we have around 2 months’ worth of disk space remaining now that Pictrs is removed. I’m looking for solutions in the meantime that will balance performance and cost effectively.

Edit: The PostgreSQL database has been moved. Please read https://compuverse.uk/post/277751 for more info.

  • Tibert@compuverse.uk
    4·
    1 year ago

    With the downtimes and issues to solve that will come in the future, maybe it would be interesting to create a mastodon or similar fediverse compatible account to post about updates and issues for the server.

    Unless I forgot/missed that there is already one.

    • Cameron@compuverse.ukOPM
      3·
      1 year ago

      I did actually set up a Mastodon server previously, but decided to swap over to hosting Lemmy instead.

      However, for future downtime, I’ve created a maintenance page, which I’ll switch over to, and provide whatever information I can.

      You can see it over at https://holding.compuverse.uk/ :)