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How will lemmy instances survive if they get too big? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know there's donations and the owners can use their own money, but there's a limit. I doubt a platform with hundreds of thousands of daily users can survive with only donations.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why? A single Linux server has been able to support tens of thousands of simultaneous clients for many years now.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bandwidth is not free.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Text is small.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bandwidth is not free.

Better?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

well, text was small I guess :D

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The €5/mo VPS my instance runs on has 20TB bandwidth included.

So while it is not free, it can certainly be very, very inexpensive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's super cheap. A lot of us nerds have very good incomes and can pay for an instance that has like 20 TB of network traffic for less than 10 dollars per month.

It's our way to try and contribute to the growth of Lemmy and also it's fun to run our own instance.

Edit: Corrected network bandwidth amount.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? Did you mean 40Gbps for less than 10 dollars/mo? Or did you mean 40GB of traffic total monthly? Huh?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry it was 20 TB traffic per month for less than 10 dollars per month. Have a look here at options:

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, that's fair, but it's also in a region where typical egress costs are cheap anyways. It'll be harder to find something like this in say, the SEA or OC regions.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you talking about a specific server or just Linux servers in general?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm referring to the old "c10k problem".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think this doesn't apply? Aren't they talking about 10k simultaneously connected users here? With http you connect and disconnect for every request.

Also the database is likely to give timeout errors way before you reach the socket limits.