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How much money does Lemmy.ml need to temporarily boost their servers? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years 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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[–] Mac 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What if a bunch of groups from the Fediverse hosted a huge fundraiser and distributed the funds to where they were needed? Maybe even kept a bank of funds for when large, temporary influxes of funding are needed.

Also, hi! Thanks for hosting!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That is a very good idea, you may want to send the idea to the dev.