Its now running on a dedicated server with 6 cores/12 threads and 32 gb ram. I hope this will be enough for the near future. Nevertheless, new users should still prefer to signup on other instances.

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  • Blaskowitz@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Is it possible to horizontally scale these instances instead of just upping the machine hardware? What are the main performance bottlenecks typically?

    • mwlczk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Hey, what do you mean by “scale horizontally”? There are multiple approaches to tackle this.

      • Have multiple nodes/pods for the same instance and run them on a cloud-like service provider
      • have RO-instances to handle to read-load
      • share/merge bigger communities/subs over multiple instances
      • … All of these requiere most likely a major rewrite/change of Lemmy server software I guess. In my opinion the first option would fit the most.
      • Blaskowitz@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        My comment was without knowing the topology of Lemmy at all, but my thoughts were initially that vertically scaling can have diminishing returns past a certain threshold. Since the servers seem to be struggling I’m wondering if that has been surpassed and if it’s more cost-effective and reliable to scale this way? But if the application isn’t written in that way, or the underlying data store isn’t equipped for multiple instances then fair enough, I’d be interested as to why especially if Lemmy grows. I’ll take a look at open issues and educate myself a bit more though.