Hey everyone, so as I’m sure everyone is aware Lemmy.World has been experiencing several outages throughout the last few days.
We have been investigating the root cause of these outages but believe that they are related to our current hosting provider (Hetzner) blocking access from ClouldFlare as (we think) they believe that our CDN is a DDoS’er, and is causing these disconnects to our backend server, problematic for sure.
We’ve opened support tickets with our current provider and are awaiting a response. We have no issue with being as transparent as possible with downtime. Anyone that is curious, can feel free to check out https://status.lemmy.world and https://dash.lemmy.world for up to the minute outage information. We are also looking into other fediverse friendly methods of posting status and outage updates
In the meantime, we are evaluating alternative hosting options and solutions to provide a high level of reliability to you, our users. Really, we want to say thanks to everyone for soldiering through all our technical growing pains.
Cheers
- LW Infra Team
I mean, I’d help if I didn’t have to have the educational background of a rich upper class white man. Teach me what I need to know and I’ll sysop. But it looked like you had lots of people already come forward with experience “serving at the edge”, etc. All I’ve done is play with Kubernetes and Proxmox at home on a residential IP with a domain pointed at my residence. Unfortunately, with no college education, I’ve had to teach myself all I know and it probably isn’t up to what’s wanted. I’ve heard “A bad sysop can be worse than just having nobody”, so :(
I quit highschool and was force-fed some kind of formal education in the Navy. I think I have an associates degree of some kind? I dunno and I personally don’t care if I do.
However, I built my career doing what I love and that was doing anything in IT… I settled on IT Security and just kept getting real world experience. Proving your skills and abilities can be a challenge at first, but its no different than anyone else fresh out of college.
Don’t sell yourself short because you didn’t go to college. I likely saved thousands of dollars and years of my life by actually learning and applying useful skills. Many people in this world have done the same.
College is not for everyone. As a matter of fact, I tend to stear away from candidates during interviews that have just memorized everything and don’t know how to apply it. Case in point, I spent a week trying to teach someone how to troubleshoot a problem only to find out he had no idea how TCP and UDP actually worked. (I am a hands off teacher. I explain a problem and the concepts needed to fix it, but it is up to that person to do the leg work.) Sure, he could quote what he was told to memorize at school, but for many tasks he is basically useless. Ugh.
If someone reading this has gone to college and enjoyed it, awesome! Good on ya! You learn differently than I do.
You can also help by posting content and reporting people that break LW rules. You don’t need to be a tech wizard to help out.
Being a sysop and reporting mean comments are two WILDLY different things.
