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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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[–] Lobstronomosity@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Is it possible to make Lemmy (the system as a whole) able to be compatible with horizontally scaling instances? I don't see why an instance has to be confined to one server, and this would allow for very large instances that can scale to meet demand.

Edit: just seen your other comment https://lemmy.ml/comment/453391

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 years ago (6 children)

It should be easy once websocket is removed. Sharded postgres and multiple instances of frontend/backend. Though I don't have any experience with this myself.

[–] ccunix@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There is already a docker image so that should not be too hard. I'd be happy to set something up, but (as others have said) the DB will hit a bottleneck relatively quickly.

I like the idea of splitting off the image processing.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Image processing isnt causing any noticable cpu load.

[–] ccunix@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I saw someone say it was, obviously I have no access to data.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe on another instance but not on lemmy.ml

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