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Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by dragontamer »

There were some Lemmy-related discussions going on this past weekend. I think this is the one tidbit everyone around Hacker News wants to know:

> The current VPS couldn't be resized that much anymore, and load was going up with all the new users. So I bought the same server at Hetzner: a 32-core/64 thread 128GB RAM dedicated server. (For Mastodon, I doubled the RAM. For Lemmy I don't think it's needed yet.) I migrated the Lemmy software and database there, and moved over. This took 4 minutes of downtime.

So 32-core/64-threads with 128GB of RAM is running Lemmy.world, which is supporting ~36.7k users at the moment.

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A brief look at Hertzner comes up with: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax161

A 32-core/64 thread + 128GB RAM server in Germany for 142 EUR / month.

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by eigenspace »

I wish Lemmy's default design was more of a copy of old.reddit.com. For me, that design was better than both HackerNews' design and way better than the current default look of Lemmy instances.

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by gareve »

dragontamer wrote: post #2

There were some Lemmy-related discussions going on this past weekend. I think this is the one tidbit everyone around Hacker News wants to know: > The current VPS couldn't be resized that much anymore, and load was going up with all the new users. So I bought the same server at Hetzner: a 32-core/64 thread 128GB RAM dedicated server. (For Mastodon, I doubled the RAM. For Lemmy I don't think it's needed yet.) I migrate…

with some basic extrapolation, at how many users they'll hit the extra expensive Hertzner servers? or in other words, at which point they'll need to improve their architecture?

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by zmmmmm »

gareve wrote: post #4
dragontamer wrote: post #2

There were some Lemmy-related discussions going on this past weekend. I think this is the one tidbit everyone around Hacker News wants to know: > The current VPS couldn't be resized that much anymore, and load was going up with all the new users. So I bought the same server at Hetzner: a 32-core/64 thread 128GB RAM dedicated server. (For Mastodon, I doubled the RAM. For Lemmy I don't think it's needed yet.) I migrate…

with some basic extrapolation, at how many users they'll hit the extra expensive Hertzner servers? or in other words, at which point they'll need to improve their architecture?

it'll be interesting to see if at that point, federation starts to become the way of scaling or not. If it was seamless, it wouldn't matter where you signed up and they could just host multiple lemmy instances on different servers. So far I have rather spotty experiences though with content sometimes making it to federated servers, sometimes not etc etc.

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by tester457 »

eigenspace wrote: post #3

I wish Lemmy's default design was more of a copy of old.reddit.com. For me, that design was better than both HackerNews' design and way better than the current default look of Lemmy instances.

Same. However it seems most people don't like the old.reddit look, only 4% of redditors use it. Most people are content with the slow bloated new reddit.

When redditors talked about what sites to migrate to most of them preferred the modern interfaces over text based ones like tildes.net.

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by rglullis »

eigenspace wrote: post #3

I wish Lemmy's default design was more of a copy of old.reddit.com. For me, that design was better than both HackerNews' design and way better than the current default look of Lemmy instances.

It's quite easy to change the css from Lemmy, and from a quick look their HTML is reasonably clean. I'm tempted to attempt it.

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by rglullis »

gareve wrote: post #4
dragontamer wrote: post #2

There were some Lemmy-related discussions going on this past weekend. I think this is the one tidbit everyone around Hacker News wants to know: > The current VPS couldn't be resized that much anymore, and load was going up with all the new users. So I bought the same server at Hetzner: a 32-core/64 thread 128GB RAM dedicated server. (For Mastodon, I doubled the RAM. For Lemmy I don't think it's needed yet.) I migrate…

with some basic extrapolation, at how many users they'll hit the extra expensive Hertzner servers? or in other words, at which point they'll need to improve their architecture?

I honestly wish that the answer is "when we get so big to the point that a single machine can not handle it, we close registrations".

Can we please drop the "number must go up" mentality? The whole point of federated systems is to avoid concentration of power in a handful of servers. I'm sure that the people doing there have good intentions, but why can't we just let things just a little bit dispersed?

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