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$?

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlM
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      1 year ago

      Can we replace Lemmy.ml with Join-lemmy.org when Lemmy.ml is overloaded/down?

      I dont think so, when the site is overloaded then clients cant reach it at all.

      Does LemmyNet have any plans on being Kubernetes (or similar horizontal scaling techniques) compatible?

      It should be compatible if someone sets it up.