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How much money does Lemmy.ml need to temporarily boost their servers? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by 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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[–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    spy on all the traffic

    That's...not how things work. Everyone has their philosophical opinions so I won't attempt to argue the point, but if you want to handle scale and distribution, you're going to have to start thinking differently, otherwise you're going to fail when load starts to really increase.

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