Wow that was fast.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Thankyou for everything!
I don't understand why a dedicated server is a good idea, when the only true way to scale is to use like Kubernetes or Docker and ECS Containers with scale?
Your just gonna run into more problems, you cannot vertically scale forever.
Itd be cool to get donation flare!
You can! ☑️ or ✅. The Patreon page mentioned that you're officially allowed to edit your username to add flair when you donate. I upgraded to $8/month specifically so I could add the flair, but then got cold feet about the idea. 😀
Nice! Why the cold feet? Just curious.
I was just worried that people wouldn't get the joke and it would just come across as odd. IDK, maybe it's actually a good thing if it makes people curious, to encourage more people to do the Patreon.
I think donators should get a certain level of respect for contributing monetarily. Its not everyone out here donating haha. Some flair is a good way to have a badge that signifies that contribution.
Hm. Apparently I'm very suggestible, because you talked me into it. 🙂
Thank you for your service. 🫡
Thanks for everything you're doing. I signed up for Patreon to contribute!
Thanks for you work on this! What is the planned time for the outage?
For less tech-savvy newbies (like me), in case there is some confusion affecting your urge to engage/donate... My friend gave me a great explanation:
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Lemmy the platform is planet Earth
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“Instances” like lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc. are like the different countries on Earth
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When someone signs up, the user picks one instance to be a part of, like how an Earthling becomes a citizen of a country
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If you register at lemmy.world, that means your home instance/ “home country” is lemmy.world, but you can “travel” to lemmy.ml, another instance / “country”, to check out and subscribe to their community
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When you subscribe to a different instance that’s not your home instance, you can still participate in their content, and other people will be able to see which instance / “country” you’re from
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Each instance can have its own version of the same “subreddit”, so you can have a c/Memes in your home instance that is different from a c/Memes in another instance. But you can subscribe to both separately
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c/[community name] is the naming convention used here I think like r/[subreddit name] on Reddit. If talking about a community in a different instance, it's c/[community name]@[instance name] so like c/memes@lemmy.ml
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Donations will help with the cost of running lemmy.world only and not lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc.
Someone please correct any of this if any of it is wrong, I’ll happily edit
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Just joined. Thank you so much for your effort!
Like many others, I came from Reddit and was initially hesitant to try it out, but I love this place so much! It really feels like the "worse" parts of Reddit have been skimmed off, and that definitely shows with how nice people seem here! Thank you so much!
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More power! More power is good.
Thank you very much! 🥳
What kind of server configuration are you guys running? A single instance?
@ruud@lemmy.world DM me if you need help setting up monitoring/alerting on server health. IRL I'm on an SRE team, so happy to help where I can!
Just donated $10! Appreciate all the work you all are doing to keep up with the growth.
Does it work on water now that it has MORE POWA?
So, I just want to make sure I understand this as I am a new user from reddit. Instances are server based and cost money. Instances are Lemmy.World, Beebaw, Lemmy.Film, etc etc. These are all seperate hosted instances. Correct?
And donations would help pay for the server, ie lemmy.world?
"Lemmy instances" are analogous to "email servers": your account is hosted on one of them, but you can communicate with people on other ones, because the servers know how to talk to each other.
Expanding the capacity of the Lemmy service will involve both (1) more instances, and (2) more resources for existing instances.
Nice!
Is one donation method preferred over another? That is to say, is one cheaper than the other?
I'm not too familiar with Lemmy's codebase, but I am a devops engineer. Is the software written in any way to support horizontal scaling? If so, I'd be happy to consult/help to get the instance onto an autoscaling platform eventually.
Doesn’t support HA or horizontal scaling yet from what I read. Unsure if kbin does. Probably would have to add support for horizontal scaling to have that auto scaling do anything.
Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. Understandable though, since horizontal scaling/HA usually isn't a priority when developing a new application.
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Are you running this out of your home?
I have self hosted small things before, but I was always curious about lager stuff like this.
What are your internet speeds?
Check the updated post. It's running on a dedicated server hosted by Hetzner. Specs are high-end: "AMD EPYC 7502P 32 Cores “Rome” CPU and 128GB RAM."
Thanks for letting me know. I also have my work stuff on Hetzner. But I do not see "Hetzner" listed in this post.
Have you ever hosted on Vultr? I need a server with less latency and Vultr seems to have servers in a good location for my needs.
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