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How is lemmyworld so stable? (monero.house)

submitted 2 years ago by maltfield@monero.house to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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At the time of writing, Lemmyworld has the second highest number of active users (compared to all lemmy instances)

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

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?

https://lemmy.ml/post/1221008

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[-] neighbourbehaviour@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

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