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How much money does Lemmy.ml need to temporarily boost their servers? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year 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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[โ€“] poVoq@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe some dns fail-over for lemmy.ml to point to join-lemmy.org might be cool indeed ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] tmpod 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, was thinking of a DNS based solution as well. Probably the easiest and most effective way to do it?