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Do you think lemmy will sustain scalability? (lemmus.org)

submitted 10 months ago by Cloudkid@lemmus.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Not just speaking technically but economically. As user number mount up their post is just going to add up. I know instaces may distribute user, but server space isn't going to go down for anyone. It just seems like built to fall.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

theres a great crew in the devs/other admins of mbin on matrix, and i am always happy to help if you ever decide to give it a go.

you can probably do it very cheaply. i went the most expensive route, and im payin ~$1.00/day. not using aws, you could maybe that down to $0.25
one thing to keep in mind, once your instance is up with a domain name (myinstance.mydomain.com) it cant really be changed.

im an old sysadmin, i hate social media... i just like looking at the numbers..keeping things running. my hate for the new reddit has overtaken my hate for social media.

[–] SamXavia@kbin.run 1 points 10 months ago

@originalucifer Thank you, it's something that I am really interested in, just need to be in the right mindset to be ready to get that going. I knew about the domain not being able to change and have already thought about the subdomain I would use as I think just calling it something simple like Social.mydomain.com is something that would work and make people understand why it's called that.