Is there a simple way to reduce Friendica server load without disabling important features?


Hi everyone,
I’ve been running a small Friendica instance for a little while now, mostly for friends and a few community members, and recently I noticed the server load spikes heavily during federation updates and background tasks. The server itself isn’t very powerful, so I’m trying to find a balance between performance and keeping the important social features active.

I wanted to ask other admins here: what settings or optimizations made the biggest difference for you? Did adjusting cron frequency, database cleanup, caching, or limiting certain federation options noticeably help? I’m especially interested in solutions that don’t require moving to more expensive hosting right away.

Would appreciate hearing what worked best in real-world setups.dordle

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I am noticing many normal internet services are either dead or ill tonight. When I try to use whois it takes 45 seconds to get a result, when I query each server by IP I see one or two of eight actually respond, the others are dead. When I try to go to ubuntu-mate.org, ubuntu's website for the mate spin, nada. I recently upgraded from 24.04 to 26.04 and half the software is incomplete, Compize does not have libcore.so or libccp.so which are pretty much necessary for it's operation. I can ping all of these sites fine so it's not network connectivity, it's the services. Any one got any idea what is going on?

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