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$?

      • Tmpod
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        210 months ago

        Yeah, was thinking of a DNS based solution as well. Probably the easiest and most effective way to do it?

    • @[email protected]
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      1310 months ago

      We need Self hosted team and team networking to represent. Would be amazing to see some community support in scaling Lemmy up.

    • @[email protected]M
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      910 months 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.

      • Leigh
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        910 months ago

        You could configure something like a Cloudflare worker to throw up a page directing users elsewhere whenever healthchecks failed.

          • Leigh
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            910 months ago

            spy on all the traffic

            That’s…not how things work. Everyone has their philosophical opinions so I won’t attempt to argue the point, but if you want to handle scale and distribution, you’re going to have to start thinking differently, otherwise you’re going to fail when load starts to really increase.

            • @[email protected]
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              210 months ago

              Cloudflare spies via decrypting any and all SSL traffic. They are a MITM company, and they started off originally as Project Honeypot, read about it. No, this is not philosophical or conspiratorial, this is reality.

          • wagesof
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            410 months ago

            You could run an interstitial proxy yourself with a little health checking. The server itself doesn’t die, just the webapp/db. nginx could be stuck on there (if it’s not already there) with a temp redirect if the site is timing out.