@Gargron Hi! Do you need help with hosting? I can hook you up with a great and very professional hosting company if you want 😁👍🏼 let me know!

@Gargron Carry on! You do a very great job!

@Gargron it's okay, you do what you can do and that's great!

@Gargron mach dir bitte keinen stress! Wir sind dir sehr dankbar für deine Arbeit!

@Gargron not your fault. 💚

@Gargron Growing pains :-) If we stood with twitter during the fail whale period, these small glitches are just minor inconveniences.
Thank you :-)

@Gargron no worries but you've created something unequivocal

@Gargron

It's a holiday today in Bavaria, where Hetzner's German branch is located according to the website. So that might be a factor.

@Gargron Hetzner is pretty amazing for what one pays… but yeah I’ve also had week long provisioning delays for dedicated servers especially during peak Covid. Hope it comes soon!

@Gargron You're doing a great job 💪

@Gargron take your time, you're doing the good work.

@Gargron but why hetzner

@Gargron why hetzner?

@Gargron do you have any horizontal scaling strategies ? The image processing problem you mentioned recently seems to be an easy parallelizable issue.

@Gargron Maybe we should think of a way for people to go somewhere else than _everybody_ on mastodon.social?

@Gargron What's the infrastructure for fosstodon like? I'm a platform engineer, maybe I can help.

@Gargron thank you for everything & all the work you have put into this. ❤️

@Gargron Shoulda built it on mongo. It's web scale.

@Gargron thanks for your awesome work!

@Gargron appreciate what you are doing!

@Gargron How smooth is your deploy process? If it's 100% automated like with Ansible or any other IaC, you can fire a bare-metal node on Vultr from less than 10min.

@Gargron hang in there and keep up the great work! These are the best kind of problems to have 🛠️

@Gargron Take your time, it seems to be working well so far. you are doing a great job :) delivery delays happen during the chip shortage times.

@Gargron I don't see any slowdown, take your time and thank you for the time spent on your Mastodon server.

@Gargron Crikey!
I've recently been hitting the limit on my Scaleway VPS, and , because its a legacy package, I can't expand it, and they want far too much for a new server.
Hetzner is charging similar prices to what i pay now, but with more performance!
Might look at switching over!
Thanks for that!

@Gargron dont worry - we are geduldig

@Gargron 🙏 Thank you for your dedication, work and most importantly the result of your efforts. 🙏

@Gargron what would be the best way to see how Mastodon is growing after Musk has bought Twitter?

@Gargron No need for apologies! Thanks!

It is not your fault, @Gargron

Blame #ElonMusk the rest of us do!😀

@Gargron if you can swing it infrastructure and network wise, maybe it could be useful to spin up some temporary instances on equinix or similar while waiting on hetzner?

their pricing is by the hour (and deploy in minutes), so might be a good fit to run for a few days or weeks?

https://metal.equinix.com/

@Gargron You're doing a great and responsive job. We'll be patient.

@Gargron No problem. Thnx for your work. Hope my small patreon money will help a little bit.

@Gargron Hello, I am a security researcher and would like to ask you couple of questions about the server which I am on. Could be very helpful for you too.

@Gargron It reminds me of the time when information was not instantaneous...
On Mastodon, I send a postcard, I trust the latter to deliver it one of these four to those who will read it (or not!).
In short, this delay (much more a lengthening of time) is not unpleasant.

As on my island: my contractor will come by at the end of the week but has not indicated which one! But he will come!
The proof? I have been his customer for six years and he has become a friend...

@Gargron *keep calm and carry on* das wird schon.. war ja nicht unbedingt abzusehen das alle jetzt auf einmal Twitter die kehrseite mit den 5 buchstaben zeigen und dir/euch hier die Bude einrennen...
lieber die neue kiste mit klarem Kopf zusammenschrauben als mit stress im unterbewusstsein *erfahrungswerte*
Du schaffst das schon 😊

@Gargron Thank you for all your hard work in the crisis. I'm delighted to see Mastodon grow and I hope you will be, too, after you get some sleep.

@Gargron I keep my fingers crossed!

@Gargron Don't be sorry. We are grateful for your efforts.

@Gargron out of curiosity, how big is Mastodon’s infrastructure?

@Gargron out of interest, do you use root server or cloud instances at Hetzner?

@Gargron It's OK, Eugen. We understand how the unexpected load can affect performance.

It's still much better than the early days in Twitter, with all those flying whales.

We can wait.

@Gargron Thank you for all you do and are trying to do.

Just curious, as I saw you mention this the other day, but what is the average delay time currently when trying to upload an image?

I've been waiting around 15 minutes at the moment for a 236kb image to be uploaded and it's still processing. Hopefully it's getting close to being processed.

@Gargron What are your severs doing on my IP address via Riyadh Saudi Arabia? I don't even live there

@Gargron You're doing a great job! No apologies necessary.

@Gargron on behalf of Twitter migration users, bless you for your help.

@Gargron @Mastodon now has a Patreon account with memberships starting at $1/month. A great way keep the platform growing! 🎉
#mastodon #patreon #SupportMastodon 
https://www.patreon.com/mastodon

@Gargron
Desperate times call for desperate actions. I’d be happy to live without pictures until you get new equipment. Can you turn off expensive features like uploading pics? #MastoSurvival

@Gargron thanks, we know you're doing your best.

@Gargron you need a #mainframe

@Gargron that's quite slow - I have found other hosts to be better, but I guess if that's what you are used to etc.
Onwards and upwards!

@Gargron No need to apologise! Doing the best you can.

@Gargron no problem..

It gives us more time for coffee & conversation while waiting. 😉

@Gargron Holup, is the main site fully on prem?

@Gargron how about a real-time intro w/chat Q&A? Purpose: reduce time to effective use.

@Gargron Is there any way we can get Ol' Musky to give you a heads up before he does anything else stupid with Twitter?

@Gargron completely understandable! No need to apologize. It's a good problem! 🖖🏻

@Gargron It’s fine. Us old timers remember the Fail Whale. This site’s performance is great in comparison.

@Gargron What are the specs of the servers? Is there any architectural diagram of the network being used on the Social federated servers?

@Gargron Let’s go bro, how can I help?

@Gargron No worries, thanks for all the effort your' putting in. I can imaging the current growth is great and all, although also comes with a lot of work.

@Gargron Don't be sorry, it's ok.
Take your time, you do a very great job! Thanks for all your awesome work!

@Gargron No worries. Housing refugees is a problem - as the UK government knows only too well .

@Gargron waiting for it. Keep up the good work. How can we help?

@Gargron Ha!

@Gargron must be all those trick or treaters

@Gargron My small recurring donation via Patreon is in the works. I'm very happy with the Mastodon experience despite the growing pains. Hang in there!

@Gargron
If you re route registration to other instances, we will be able to help.

You will do it eventually and we will be happy to assist with the load.

It is a matter of time. 😊

@Gargron Holidays are the worst.

@Gargron Not to worry. Rome wasn't built in one day either. Just happy to have escaped that rightwing shithole twitter became. Just Breath. You'll be fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uo0JAUWijM

@Gargron no worries. This is ovetkill.

@Gargron Hey, thanks for your effort!! Appreciate it!! 💜

@Gargron Wouldn't it be an idea to close Mastodon.social for a little while for new users, then weed out the accounts that are demanding changes but are not patreons, and those who break server rules. Then, what about partnering with a company or The European Commission? For a long term solution? Suppose this influx continues, and all the companies and trolls from Twitter also sign up to here. You might be too tired to think of a solution now, but trust me, do it before you crash.

@Gargron I think you're doing a wonderful job! Thanks for founding this platform. 👍🙂

@Gargron I have a network problem at hetzner and the ticket is already 3 days old. So they are all on vacation :-)

@Gargron I've got an old net book you could borrow? :-)

Thanks for all work we're causing you...

@Gargron For a platform like this, you actually need a cloud. The hardware must automatically grow and shrink with the number of users.

@Gargron i found this still so hard to use, its not easy to find someones profile like how usual username checking, please encourage

@Gargron thank you for the great work!!!

@Gargron Wird schon. Wir harren aus :)
Danke für deine immense Arbeit!🌸

@Gargron Just signed up to donate monthly. Thanks for your work ♥️

@Gargron keep on!

@Gargron
No te preocupes, esperaremos.
Calma.
Buen trabajo.
Salu2
)>_<(

@Gargron Thank you for all you do!

@Gargron No Worries. I love it.

@Gargron good to see that you are working on it, load must have exploded with all those new users. Great work!

@Gargron Do you have a use for a Hetzner EX42-NVMe? Got one lying around.

@Gargron No apologies needed, grateful for all you are doing.

@Gargron hurray, this mastodon initiative is just great❣️

@Gargron zufrieden mit Hetzner? Hab viel Negatives gelesen und mich für https://www.netcup.eu/ entschieden.

@Gargron Feel with you! Hectic days. Worldwide Mastodon expansion boom trickling to Hetzner?
Don't recognise this delay, Dedicated nor Cloud, usually within minutes.
Hetzner is my #1 provider since 2006, price, reliability, support (no affiliation).
I back .social via Patreon, but that will not help now. Anything where I can help?

@Gargron We need more power captain!!!! Warp drive is offline!! She can’t take much more of this!!!

Lol

…My I image won’t load, so just imagine Scotty sweating profusely in the Enterprise engine room.

hang in there, Eugen!

@Gargron Kia ora from Aotearoa NZ, you are doing more than your best and it is much appreciated. Thank you!

@Gargron No worries, you’re doing more than enough 💪

@Gargron It’s fine. I like this place, so I think I’ll stick around.

@Gargron no worries. Appreciate you keeping us posted.

@Gargron thank you for your patience with all of us who are taking part in the Bird migration. I’m really grateful that this space and these conversations are here.

@Gargron hang in there

@Gargron we know you are doing your best. I am sure there is a crush of traffic over the past few days. Good luck to you.