2y ago

lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead - Lemmy.ca

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It's one part uncharted territory to see how well Lemmy servers can scale, and it's another part balancing how much bigger of a hosting plan one needs to support the influx, amid the possibility of some people leaving after trying it out a bit.
Many servers run on 1 or 2 GB RAM which may not be enough if all of a sudden activity triples.
- Especially as everyone flees Reddit. I'm guessing the 12th then the 30th will be big influx days
  
  One day more...
Maybe I'm crazy however if this is the instance run by developers. Is $30-100/month really impossible to handle? I figured this would be their more exciting time.
- I don't think its so much about the cost as it is about the ability to scale properly. There will be some issues like this at the beginning
  
  Yeah, I'm curious at the scaling problems. 1000 active users isn't that many. Especially if this is touted as being the next reddit. There are many subreddits with orders of magnitude more active users.
I remember that in the early days of lemmy, outages or slowdowns were quite common (one of the reasons I left).
Hope things go better this time
Does lemmy.ml allow communities from all instances? Or is there any instance that does? Like poverty meals is in lemmygrad so you can't access it from beehaw if I understand Lemmy properly
- lemmygrad gets banned from almost all instances. I'd recommend creating a PovertyMeals on an instance that isn't filled with as many hyper-political people.

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