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I'm definitely seeing the benefits of belonging to a smaller Lemmy instance today. (self.meta)
submitted 2 years ago by michaelcharles to c/meta
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I've gone and made accounts of a handful of Lemmy instances, all of them larger, more popular ones.

... and I can't access any of them directly today, likely due to the influx of users from Reddit.

Programming.dev is alive and well though.

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[–] cmeerw 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

When will the first Lemmy instances permanently shut down again because of high resource usage/costs?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was thinking if an instance owner cannot afford to keep upgrading servers, it could close its doors to new registrations. This will create a need for more instances and users will be more evenly distributed.

[–] cmeerw 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But it's my understanding that resource usage will keep increasing even if you keep the number of users constant on a server (as more content is posted in the communities that users are subscribed to, and that content needs to be synced and stored).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's adding storage, which is comparatively cheap.

For more simultaneous users, you need more CPU/RAM. That's where the monthly cost shoots up fast.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

If anything, this is the month where we'll find out... A lot of medium/large instances have made the jump to dedi servers and keeping those up isn't cheap