Yesterday I deployed the latest Piefed software and overnight the server ran out of memory and fell about 8 hours behind. After restarting, memory began consuming at an alarming rate. I scaled the server up, but when I restarted, the server wasn’t processing any incoming data but throwing 502 (Internal Server Errors).

I restored the server from a back-up I made on Saturday (Database is NOT affected and is still up-to-date). Now it’s back to working. HOWEVER, all the incoming posts for about 8 hours are missing. I don’t know if it’s due to the restore, or they were just tossed when they came in due to the problem that was happening.

So, apologies for losing 8 hours of incoming posts. I’ve reached out to the developers for next steps.

Once everything works with the latest code, I’ll scale the server back down to the size it was before.