At the time of writing, Lemmyworld has the second highest number of active users (compared to all lemmy instances)
Also at the time of writing, Lemmyworld has >99% uptime.
By comparison, other lemmy instances with as many users as Lemmyworld keep going down.
What optimizations has Lemmyworld made to their hosting configuration that has made it more resilient than other instances’ hosting configurations?
See also Does Lemmy cache the frontpage by default (read-only)? on [email protected]
It’s known in the industry as the throw-hardware-at-it optimization. It’s often effective and what’s needed to buy time for software optimization to come in.
As someone who got burnt out on one of their last businesses due to optimizing too early - Yes!!!
Doing it “properly” with “stateless servers” and “autoscaling” with “Kubernetes” costs a hell of a lot more money than a 64 Core server with 256 GB of RAM
Completely OT but it’s so nice to recognise usernames you’ve often seen around your “neighbourhood” on Reddit.