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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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[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Can we replace Lemmy.ml with Join-lemmy.org when Lemmy.ml is overloaded/down?

I dont think so, when the site is overloaded then clients cant reach it at all.

Does LemmyNet have any plans on being Kubernetes (or similar horizontal scaling techniques) compatible?

It should be compatible if someone sets it up.

[–] SemioticStandard@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You could configure something like a Cloudflare worker to throw up a page directing users elsewhere whenever healthchecks failed.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Then cloudflare would be able to spy on all the traffic so thats not an option.

[–] Cadende@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A better option for a simple usecase like that is using something from your DNS provider. Depending on who you use they may have a health check service that has no access to user data that can simply ping a URL, and if it fails hard enough, start redirecting traffic to join-lemmy.org

I think Constellix has it, though I'm not necessarily recommending them specifically

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