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$?
I’m also willing to donate to other instances too - Beehaw, Sopuli, Lemmygrad, Lemmyone - Anything so we can have better shock absorption. If you run one of those instances, please reply and let us know how much you think you need
At the moment, I run lemmy.world using the funding of mastodon.world. If Lemmy.world might grow and need a dedicated server, I’ll try to raise funds for it separately (or create a larger .world fundraiser as I have other instances as well)
What if a bunch of groups from the Fediverse hosted a huge fundraiser and distributed the funds to where they were needed? Maybe even kept a bank of funds for when large, temporary influxes of funding are needed.
That is a very good idea, you may want to send the idea to the dev.
What kind of server and which specs is lemmy.world running on? I’m planning on setting up my own instance for a small community, but I have no idea what to brace for.
Currently a 2 cpu 4GB VPS at Hetzner, costing 5 EUR per month. With a storage volume of also 5 per month. I am monitoring this and will scale when needed. For mastodon.world we scaled it to a dedicated server with 32 cores and 256GB so we can go a long way.
Can you provide any info about the number of pageviews/month or pageviews/hr that setup can support for lemmy?
No, I have nu clue about that yet. I’ll monitor how Lemmy behaves and try to scale. Maybe after a while I can say something about it.
Thanks, appreciate the data point.