Aus.Social Admin @aussocialadmin@aus.social
I'm about to push an update that apparently will massively change the way Mastodon looks - but you'll be able to change it back if you don't like it 
Updated: Feel free to turn on/off the advanced web interface and see how you feel!
Queues are back to zero.. everything back to normal.
This attack broke my terms of service....
also.. looks like there is a queue of jobs to complete before I catch up... so things might be slow for a while
So like Jurassic park. "So, some minor systems may go on and off for a while. There's nothing to worry about. Simple thing.... "
Sorry for the downtime.
Root-cause: /var/log/syslog filled our disk up. I've increased the disk space and resolved my syslog problem to it shouldn't repeat.
Side Effects: The disk space issue also caused the CPU to spike which ate my CPU credits (classic AWS)... so I've moved to a new instance type temporarily at the cost of some bison bucks. The joy of being a sysadmin :)
Lessons learned: Monitoring didn't work since I've moved to Singapore and got a new number. I'll fix that tonight.
Updated aus.social to V2.8.1... The fancy Blurhash images are now supported :)
Sorry about that. I've increased the instance type due to running out of memory.
Sorry again. A little transparency.... Upgrading from 2.6.2 to 2.6.5 while I'm on the server. So expect a few seconds of downtime soon.
Sorry for that unexpected outage. Monitoring picked it up and I was able to reboot the server straight way... there goes my uptime record
I might need to increase the instance size if the server runs out of memory again.. The OOM Killer decided to take us down.
https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/9o0xpg/mastodon_instances_have_started_popping_up_in/
I've posted a little something in Reddit to do with the 2nd year anniversary of Mastodon - I hope the admins don't mind..
@mike @hynx @daedalus
"you can invite your birdsite friends here, if you want too, of course. Have a nice day. moew"... sure thing fancy cat
"Hello relay.. yes this is relay."
neighbours actor.. GET... IT... 
I just upgraded this mastodon instance (in the middle of the day) from v2.5.0RC1 -> RC2 -> v2.5.0.. with zero downtime.
"do you have time to talk about my true love docker?"
1) Upgraded the server from T2.Small to T2.Medium. (Double the CPU and Double the Memory)
2) Upgraded our instance to 2.5.0 RC1. Just to finally get inline with a point release. :)
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.5.0rc1
Backups were taken incase of failure but everything has tested fine.... Please report any weirdness 
