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A temporary fix for overloaded lemmy.ml servers, via THAIO (Throw-Hardware-At-It Optimisation)...
Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
Sadly there's only one server since Lemmy doesn't support horizontal scaling (hopefully for now only)
This sounds like something we need. I'm sure it's much harder to implement than I imagine (I'm not a programmer, just a geek). Lemmy needs more devs.
I actually ran a moderately active (like 20,000 hits a day) small business site from a laptop for a couple years. Of course one of the first thing I did was put a "SERVER DO NOT SHUT DOWN" sticker on it, and set the power settings so closing the lid did not shut down or sleep the computer. It was a Dell 7000 series with 16GB IIRC, it did great.
Not advertising here, but with this low traffic you could be in a permanent free tier with AWS with all the availability guarantees. It doesn't work with EC2, but for serverless solutions (ApiGateway, Lambda, DynamoDB) they have something like "we start charging after 1M calls per month" (don't quote me on this exact number). I have a couple of pet projects working this way
Bro that's the Reddit server.
Old shitty laptops make good servers. They have a built-in UPS.
I have a minecraft server running on a laptop like this. Sadly I don't have any friends that want to play minecraft right now ):
This looks like my old laptop - Lenovo Y510P. Even down to the slight abrasion below the mousepad from the user wearing a watch with a metal band.
It had SLI GPUs in a laptop through the ultra bay. It was a beast for about 20 minutes until the heat built up.
Unplug it real quick so we can find out