I’m the sysadmin for beehaw.org and our user-base has almost tripled in 24 hours. Our site has been crashing so much over this time period.

We do have some volunteers that are trying to figure out a reasonable solution for when this happens again four weeks from now.

Do you have any recommendations?

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    1 year ago

    I mean I’ve been able to verify with a number of users in America, and in Europe that signups just “spin” on lemmy.ml and have been that way for 24 hours or so. I’ve personally tested it on iOS & Windows (Safari, librewolf and Vivaldi) as well as on multiple IPs and had a few friends in multiple countries (England, France and Germany) try as well. Something is hung up somewhere for a few people at least. I made a post about it shrug

    Also there’s a few posts on r/lemmy with others having this same problem too.

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      1 year ago

      You can ask them to check the browser console for errors. Or sign up somewhere else. Anyway we are getting at least a dozen signups per hour so it’s working for many.

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      On my instance at least, spinning on click normally meant issue with email submission. But there wasn’t any good feedback like “failed to send email”

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        1 year ago

        No issue using the same email server and naming structure for signup on beehaw (as far as user email field data goes).

        Update: Yup just checked using a different email address and server.