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How much money does Lemmy.ml need to temporarily boost their servers? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's the current bottleneck?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SQL. We desperately need SQL experts. It's been just me for yeRs, and my SQL skills are pretty terrible.

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

Put the whole DB in RAM :-)

Makes me remember optimization, lots of EXPLAIN and JOIN pain, on my old MySQL multiplayer game server lol. A shame I'm not an expert ...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And may be the bandwidth. Serve thousands and thousands need at minimum 1gbps.

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

Its mostly text so bandwidth shouldnt be a problem.