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How much money does Lemmy.ml need to temporarily boost their servers? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Image processing isnt causing any noticable cpu load.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe on another instance but not on lemmy.ml