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by lukhas 10d ago
It seems to be working mildly better in Chromium than in Firefox, but I still got that "Dashboard temporarily unavailable" error on most of my refreshes. Of course now that I gave up on them it seems to be back online, all without
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by lukhas 2y ago
We're an understaffed charity.
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by lukhas 2y ago
They are indeed not equivalent, but for our use case this is sufficent, if we detect data corruption we can just throw away the files and download/regenerate them (this is a freely available dataset, if a bit large, https://
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by lukhas 2y ago
As mentionned elsewhere, we're renting most of our infra from OVH, and paying, monthly , for 40TB of SSDs or NVMes would simply explode our yearly budget. Source: am président of the lichess charity (and also one of the sysadmins)
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by lukhas 2y ago
We're up to 2 employees now! The founder and a mobile dev. The impact on costs is "not small", because as a rough estimate, the charity pays overall about twice what the dev gets in take-home money, because French employer ta
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by lukhas 3y ago
It's not listed in this page because it varies month-by-month, but we publish our yearly books in a lichess blog post and on the government "Journal Officiel": 2022: https://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/pages&
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by lukhas 3y ago
Nothing is modest at Lichess scale, we have a few million users, several thousand of them post in forums daily and chat with each other. Also, we're a chess website with more than one million games per day, and some people like to chea
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by lukhas 3y ago
Lichess is a non-profit with hundreds of volunteers, several part-time paid contributors/moderators and 2 full-time devs, not a company.
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by lukhas 3y ago
(I'm a Lichess sysadmin & trustee) So far France has given us exactly 0 euros and 0 cents, but has required us to hire and pay an accounting company to certify our books due to the level of donations we're receiving. We could
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by lukhas 3y ago
Lichess sysadmin (and trustee) here! We're paying taxes on our employees, they're paid like regular French employees and therefore the employer is taxed accordingly. This is not income tax on our donations or swag sales. I would p
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by lukhas 3y ago
Lichess sysadmin here! We're self-hosting most of our infra on bare-metal, on the best price/quality hosting provider I know of (OVH). I doubt you could store ~1TB of metrics going back 4 or 5 years on fast NVMe storage for less t
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by lukhas 4y ago
That's the one and only server running https://github.com/lichess-org/lila , ie. the main scala JVM application. See https://lichess.org/source for a list of all the services with a more-or-less up
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by lukhas 4y ago
Currently it's "-Xms30g -Xmx30g -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+PrintCodeCache -XX:ProfiledCodeHeapSize=500m -XX:NonProfiledCodeHeapSize=500m -XX:NonNMethodCodeHeapSize=24m -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=1024m -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=1024m -XX:Para
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by lukhas 4y ago
Keeping a template image containing enough code to start fishnet ( https://github.com/lichess-org/fishnet/ ) so that we can boot up quick and (relatively) cheap fishnet instances should the need arise.