feddit.de has been giving “Server error” for some time but I read that the server is still working when using a Lemmy app. Tried the Photon front-end today and choosing feddit.de as instance.
- Example post from All : https://phtn.app/post/feddit.de/12459995
- Example (German) post from Local, 3 hours ago : https://phtn.app/post/feddit.de/12475331
My question (I’m just curious, I have no account on feddit.de) is : Can an alternative front-end on their server co-exist with the other server software ? I guess it would be a matter of installing Photon and then point nginx configuration to that. Or am I missing something crucial ?
A lot of software writes to log files or temporary files or lock files or database transaction logs as part of its normal function and when those writes fail due to a full disk the software doesn’t work anymore.
That’s bad software then, right? The inability to write to disk shouldn’t cause the software to lose all functionality. Unless that’s its only function, or somehow depends on it for proper functioning. 🤷♂️
No. Every good software program should write at least logs to disk. Every good database writes to disk. Add a new post, db will commit to the db and the db will grow in size.
Name any decent sized program where new content is added and I guarantee it writes to disk and will fail eventually if not maintained.
Nice down vote. Let’s discuss instead.
I’m saying that the server shouldn’t go down just because new content can’t be added. You should get maybe a 500-series REST response or something. Not… nothing. Ideally it should write to disk. Ideally it should allow new content to be added. But uptime and content access is still more important than being able to write to disk. It should warn the admin of the serious errors, and explain to the user in some diplomatic/apologetic manner. But never go down completely. That’s not resilient at all.
That’s my opinion. 👍
