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Anything about the lemmy.ml instance and its moderation.

For discussion about the Lemmy software project, go to [email protected].

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Its now running on a dedicated server with 6 cores/12 threads and 32 gb ram. I hope this will be enough for the near future. Nevertheless, new users should still prefer to signup on other instances.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

hi! I would be interested in understaning more the setup of the lemmy.ml instance. Do you use a cloud provider, a SaaS platform or a traditional hosting ? What are the costs that are incurred? Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a single, dedicated server from ovh.com for 60 euros per month.

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

Is Lemmy made with horizontal scaling (a.k.a. launching more instances and have a load balancer proxy the requests to the various instances) in mind? It could help larger instances like lemmy.ml managing the load better rather than just putting it on a beefier machine.

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

You should be able to do that without problems. However the main bottleneck is the database, I think some people want to experiment with read replicas. However as developers we would rather focus on optimizations which will benefit everyone, not only the largest instances.