A temporary fix for overloaded lemmy.ml servers, via THAIO (Throw-Hardware-At-It Optimisation)…
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.
Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution
Bro that’s the Reddit server.
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
Just pop the magnet out of the lid.
This is the correct, cross platform solution. It works on all operating systems!
Old shitty laptops make good servers. They have a built-in UPS.
Please use an ethernet cable, you gonna need to keep that connection spotless and WiFi are vulnerable no matter which protocols, better turn it off.
If I may also add hardened systems, a custom firmware on your router(Rec. Tomato series most updated)/hardware firewall(Rec. pfSense) with a VPS if the network is used for other means, they will help you in the long-term.
It should go without saying if you can’t secure a server, don’t host one. You’re responsible for anything that happens to it & us.
laughs in “stay awake even if lid is closed” settings in linux.
I used to work for a notebook manufacturer, and it was a non-trivial part of the cooling strategy that the lid is open under load.
I hope they’ve changed, but megacorps usually don’t.
My ASUS work laptop absolutely screams if the lid is closed while I’m working on my other monitor. It drives me nuts.
Unplug it real quick so we can find out
How did you get into the Jagex office?
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.
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.
This may help: https://sh.itjust.works/post/4706 This real answer is that it depends on how many online users there are at the same time and how much data is saved.
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
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 (:
