Troubleshooting
I've been troubleshooting the issues we keep having with Friendica.world.
The site gets unresponsive at nights (CET) around 3AM, and stays that way for a couple of hours. I've been trying to find the reason for that, but no luck yet.
It's not the backup (that runs at a different time), nor are the resources at 100%.
I did just change a setting for pm.max_children which defines the number of php-fpm processes which handle the web traffic, because I saw some errors about it having reached the max. This will fix some issues, but not sure if it fixes the freezing of the site.. We'll see I guess..
Volunteers
If there are people with some technical skills, wanting to help out running this thing (or any other instance we run), please send me a DM or mail info@friendica.world.
It's all volunteer work, and we can use some extra hands.
Donations
You can use this instance for free, but if you would like to and are able, you could help us funding the running costs by making a donation: ko-fi.com/fhfworld
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in reply to Ruud • •So are you saying Friendica simply wasn’t written to anticipate this many users on one server, or is this a horizontal scaling problem? I mean, so far a I understand, PHP scales more horizontally than vertically, and you recently threw more resources at it when you moved to the new server, but is Friendica even written to scale horizontally? I seem to recall running across a GitHub issue raised about it not being able to do that because it does everything by hostname or something.
Every night around 8PM my time (~3AM your time) I start getting a “504 Gateway Timeout” and that pretty much persists the rest of my evening I can’t access the site. The status on Fedihosting Foundation never seems to show it’s down during this lengthy period of inaccessibility and will show only previous outages of like “4 minutes” that were resolved. So I’m never sure if it’s just me or on my end or what? Sometimes I’ll still be getting new follow or comment emails from Friendica.world in the midst of my not being able to access the s
... show moreSo are you saying Friendica simply wasn’t written to anticipate this many users on one server, or is this a horizontal scaling problem? I mean, so far a I understand, PHP scales more horizontally than vertically, and you recently threw more resources at it when you moved to the new server, but is Friendica even written to scale horizontally? I seem to recall running across a GitHub issue raised about it not being able to do that because it does everything by hostname or something.
Every night around 8PM my time (~3AM your time) I start getting a “504 Gateway Timeout” and that pretty much persists the rest of my evening I can’t access the site. The status on Fedihosting Foundation never seems to show it’s down during this lengthy period of inaccessibility and will show only previous outages of like “4 minutes” that were resolved. So I’m never sure if it’s just me or on my end or what? Sometimes I’ll still be getting new follow or comment emails from Friendica.world in the midst of my not being able to access the site. So I guess it’s not down for everyone else? If it a traffic spike? The server firewall rules? DNS config? Is there no CDN?
It certainly seems strange if the server resources aren’t maxed out but something is mysteriously happening every night around the same time that persists in making it inaccessible for hours.😵💫
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in reply to Pygoscelis Papua • •Erik van Schaaik
in reply to Ruud • •Just sent some support. Got a thank-you message featuring the usual suspects. Might need a little tweak there, huh..?
😁
Cheers!
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in reply to Erik van Schaaik • •Thank you!
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