Yes! There are 3 different "types" of Lemmy backends in our infrastructure. "scheduled" types, of which there can only be one, run scheduled federation traffic as well as some smaller load balanced load of requests. The "external" type handles generic requests same as "scheduled" except without scheduled federation tasks. These can spin up or down all the way to 0, as sometimes the scheduled instance can handle everything on its own.
Finally, there is "internal". These are dedicated backend instances that are not publicly exposed and therefore do not handle any federation traffic at all. Lemmy-ui communicates with this internal backend, meaning that our UI has a path that is entirely separate to the federation traffic and should stay responsive no matter what!
lemdro.id is just a frontend, however it does have a special shortcut to the backend that allows it to function better under heavy load (on lemdro.id specifically)
It just feels like a solid no-nonsense registrar. They aren't trying to fuck you over like GoDaddy, they aren't trying to sell you a website like Squarespace.
They have most domain endings (more than the popular ones), and their prices are extremely reasonable. Lemdro.id is registered through Porkbun, with the DNS done via Cloudflare.
domains is the first one to really get me. Felt like a core product and sold to fucking square space?? I've been moving to porkbun, pretty happy with it
lemdro.id is quite strict regarding bots, I run it! I'm not sure what post they were referring to since I can't see it in their history