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How will lemmy instances survive if they get too big? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by s0phia@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I know there's donations and the owners can use their own money, but there's a limit. I doubt a platform with hundreds of thousands of daily users can survive with only donations.

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[–] jws_shadotak@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you talking about a specific server or just Linux servers in general?

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm referring to the old "c10k problem".

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this doesn't apply? Aren't they talking about 10k simultaneously connected users here? With http you connect and disconnect for every request.

Also the database is likely to give timeout errors way before you reach the socket limits.