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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  • nutomic@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    There is really not much to discuss. The server was overloaded so we got a bigger one. And there is no reason to mess with stuff like kubernetes when a single server works fine. After all our job is to improve the Lemmy software for everyone, not build a huge centralized platform only on lemmy.ml.

    • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Exactly. lemmy.ml is lemmy.ml - just a single instance. there should be incentive for other to stand up instances of their own. overload on any instance is good reason for ppl to get out there and build new instances.

    • sealneaward@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I agree with the kubernetes point. Not every problem needs it.

      I was more curious about having a load balancer infront of an autoscaling group of servers with the existing images that you are running off of, minus the self hosted database server. Then you would be able to handle spikes automatically. Just curious if that has been thought of.

      Having it accessible to everyone is great. For sure. But I was just thinking that having stronger pieces of infrastructure for instances that handle more traffic might be beneficial.

      • nutomic@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        So far it’s not necessary and there are more urgent problems to fix.