If you plan for it, it shouldn’t be an issue. The issue is that reddit made an announcement and then Lemmy servers got swarmed, they weren’t prepared for it. If you were prepared, you could make sure the server had the hardware to handle it.
Some parts too are also optimisation issues popping up that were not present before. Lot of technical minds being thrown at the issues though now which is nice.
While optimisation is likely an issue, lemmy.ml added “only” about 7,000 users in the past few days. Probably a $1,000/mo VPS would solve most of the problems - it just wouldn’t scale to hundreds of thousands of users., and probably is not financially feasible.
If you plan for it, it shouldn’t be an issue. The issue is that reddit made an announcement and then Lemmy servers got swarmed, they weren’t prepared for it. If you were prepared, you could make sure the server had the hardware to handle it.
Being prepared and staying prepared are two different things involving vastly different financial burdens.
No one knows when to stay prepared.
Some parts too are also optimisation issues popping up that were not present before. Lot of technical minds being thrown at the issues though now which is nice.
While optimisation is likely an issue, lemmy.ml added “only” about 7,000 users in the past few days. Probably a $1,000/mo VPS would solve most of the problems - it just wouldn’t scale to hundreds of thousands of users., and probably is not financially feasible.