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We're an understaffed charity.

They are indeed not equivalent, but for our use case this is sufficent, if we detect data corruption we can just throw away the files and download/regenerate them (this is a freely…

As mentionned elsewhere, we're renting most of our infra from OVH, and paying, monthly , for 40TB of SSDs or NVMes would simply explode our yearly budget. Source: am président of t…

We're up to 2 employees now! The founder and a mobile dev. The impact on costs is "not small", because as a rough estimate, the charity pays overall about twice what the dev gets i…

It's not listed in this page because it varies month-by-month, but we publish our yearly books in a lichess blog post and on the government "Journal Officiel": 2022: https://www.jo…

Nothing is modest at Lichess scale, we have a few million users, several thousand of them post in forums daily and chat with each other. Also, we're a chess website with more than …

Lichess is a non-profit with hundreds of volunteers, several part-time paid contributors/moderators and 2 full-time devs, not a company.

(I'm a Lichess sysadmin & trustee) So far France has given us exactly 0 euros and 0 cents, but has required us to hire and pay an accounting company to certify our books due to the…

Lichess sysadmin (and trustee) here! We're paying taxes on our employees, they're paid like regular French employees and therefore the employer is taxed accordingly. This is not in…

Lichess sysadmin here! We're self-hosting most of our infra on bare-metal, on the best price/quality hosting provider I know of (OVH). I doubt you could store ~1TB of metrics going…

That's the one and only server running https://github.com/lichess-org/lila , ie. the main scala JVM application. See https://lichess.org/source for a list of all the services with …

Currently it's "-Xms30g -Xmx30g -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+PrintCodeCache -XX:ProfiledCodeHeapSize=500m -XX:NonProfiledCodeHeapSize=500m -XX:NonNMethodCodeHeapSize=24m -XX:ReservedCodeCache…

Keeping a template image containing enough code to start fishnet ( https://github.com/lichess-org/fishnet/ ) so that we can boot up quick and (relatively) cheap fishnet instances s…