Post #881

You guys might notice that the bot is finally responsive, and even faster than a week ago. Well a lot of things have been going on recently and I want to be 100% transparent with you. Quick recap : - Bot hosted on Heroku for FREE since nearly 3 years (GitHub Student pack ftw 💪) - Knowing it wouldn't last forever so I was seeking for a VPS - Got a good Hetzner VPS for 8 months for testing, went flawlessly - Got suddenly reminded about the credits expiration December 1st - *panic* As I already explained this month is going to be pretty tight on budget so all these sudden changes weren't planned. So in a hurry, I moved the bot to the Hetzner server, as I had there a test bot which worked just fine for months. But little did I knew 🥹 With massive load (there's so many people using this bot), the server wasn't ready. It started to take huge time to answer requests, hours to upload even the smallest files, and be overall very unstable. I was needing for a solution. First, I reminded you about donations (since I recieved over the past 3 years $0 at the time this happened and I really needed this), more on this later. Then, I implemented limits (disk space and RAM was already implemented, only CPU was left to do). And I also fixed several problems with the bot and thread-blocking code. But yesterday night, I did another switch : from a shared to a dedicated Hetzner VPS. Yes, it costs a lot (28.79€/month instead of 15.72€, twice the amount), but I will be billed on January 05th so it's going to be somewhat okay. (also I have extra expenses for IP address, and potentially more storage and bandwidth output) The new server have : - Dedicated 4 cores, very good for extracting stuff - 16 Gb of RAM, so there's nothing to worry about - 150 Gb of storage for now, can be expanded later on Over that time, I recieved a total of 17€ (still have to be transferred to my account), it is really nice from you and it covers half of this month server expenses (not counting the Heroku overlap). Speaking of the donation, I was able to set up more subplatforms :) Here's them per "preferred way to donate" : - GitHub Sponsors : easy to track, no fee, monthly payouts, accepts debit and credit cards - PayPal : instant payout, worldwide available, fast payment, allows direct bank transfert - BuyMeACoffee : weekly payouts, accepts credit cards and Link, but have a fee for transactions - Tribute bot : easy, accepts credit cards and Wallet Pay, but can't payout without 100€ in the balance Once again, thanks all, and I will keep you up to date on this situation if it ever evolves