A temporary fix for overloaded lemmy.ml servers, via THAIO (Throw-Hardware-At-It Optimisation)…
Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
Sadly there’s only one server since Lemmy doesn’t support horizontal scaling (hopefully for now only)
This sounds like something we need. I’m sure it’s much harder to implement than I imagine (I’m not a programmer, just a geek). Lemmy needs more devs.
I actually ran a moderately active (like 20,000 hits a day) small business site from a laptop for a couple years. Of course one of the first thing I did was put a “SERVER DO NOT SHUT DOWN” sticker on it, and set the power settings so closing the lid did not shut down or sleep the computer. It was a Dell 7000 series with 16GB IIRC, it did great.
Not advertising here, but with this low traffic you could be in a permanent free tier with AWS with all the availability guarantees. It doesn’t work with EC2, but for serverless solutions (ApiGateway, Lambda, DynamoDB) they have something like “we start charging after 1M calls per month” (don’t quote me on this exact number). I have a couple of pet projects working this way
This looks like my old laptop - Lenovo Y510P. Even down to the slight abrasion below the mousepad from the user wearing a watch with a metal band.
It had SLI GPUs in a laptop through the ultra bay. It was a beast for about 20 minutes until the heat built up.
Old shitty laptops make good servers. They have a built-in UPS.
Bro that’s the Reddit server.
Just pop the magnet out of the lid.
This is the correct, cross platform solution. It works on all operating systems!
I have a minecraft server running on a laptop like this. Sadly I don’t have any friends that want to play minecraft right now ):
Come join us @ https://lemmy.world/c/oldschoolminecraft
my server is running 1.19.3 so not old school but i will still come to chill
No! Join us: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/693339
Sorry I don’t speak with communists
You’re missing out, but hey whatever you like
tankies != communists. communists are cooler (:
Yo, how’d you get in my home lab?
What specs do I need to run a lemmy instance for, say a small group of 1000 people? Cpu, Ram, Amount of Electricity needed, Minimum Internet Speed, Storage? Assuming that I would be federating with the top lemmy instances.
I think it would be possible to run it on that laptop. But the only way to find out is if you try for us!!
Unplug it real quick so we can find out
The server stopped serving?
