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How much money does Lemmy.ml need to temporarily boost their servers? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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With forewarning about a huge influx of users, you know Lemmy.ml will go down. Even if people go to https://join-lemmy.org/instances and disperse among the great instances there, the servers will go down.

Ruqqus had this issue too. Every time there was a mass exodus from Reddit, Ruqqus would go down, and hardly reap the rewards.

Even if it's not sustainable, just for one month, I'd like to see Lemmy.ml drastically boost their server power. If we can raise money as a community, what kind of server could we get for 100$? 500$? 1,000$?

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[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 61 points 2 years ago (60 children)

The site currently runs on the biggest VPS which is available on OVH. Upgrading further would probably require migrating to a dedicated server, which would mean some downtime. Im not sure if its worth the trouble, anyway the site will go down sooner or later if millions of Reddit users try to join.

[–] pe1uca@lemmy.one 12 points 2 years ago (13 children)

What's the current bottleneck?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 24 points 2 years ago (8 children)

There are some SQL database optimisations being discussed right now and apparently the picture resizing on upload can be quite CPU heavy.

[–] itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

SQL dev here. Happy to help if you can point me in the direction of said conversation. My expertise is more in ETL processes for building DWs and migrating systems, but maybe I can help?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 25 points 2 years ago

this seems to be the relevant issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2877

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