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what will happen if a Lemmy instance goes down? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have been thinking about it for some time and I'm concerned that if a big instance like lemmy.ml goes down does the content hosted on lemmy.ml will be deleted too or a copy of the content will be available on other instances?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It depends on if the shutdown process is followed - if the server just goes down, all the connected instances won't remove the data..

If it's followed correctly the destructing instance should send a signal to all known instances to remove the data.

Or at least that how I heard it works... Have to look at the documentation to know for sure