I see. My server instance is at 5% CPU and 15% memory usage. However, my managed DB instance is constantly near 80%. I'm thinking about moving the database over to the same server and managing my own backups. It's seems much more DB heavy now.
A few Subreddits were planning to come over at the end of the month that didn't work out. Their members revolted and threatened to replace the mods. So they stayed over there. It would have been over 200k people if they all came over, even if not all members came. I thought I was under planning at the time.
I was reaching out to Reddit mods, trying to convenience them to join my instance. It almost worked, haha.
But in the end, I had to scale down while still maintaining something snappy. The DB is already over 15G, and I want to use a managed db. It's too large to put on smaller instances.
I was expecting over 200k people to going overnight from Reddit. There were a few communities actively working to come over. In the end the followers revolted against a Rexxit. They didn’t come.
There was a plan for some Reddit communities with over 200k active users to come over that didn't work out. They mods were moving over, but the subscribers didn't want to leave Reddit. So I built for that load. Even if a small fraction came over it'd be busier than any other instance.
For now, I want it to be snappy and have zero outages. The "brand" of Lemmy is new, and if all the instances crash or have outages, then the transition over will be slow, and only true early adopters will endure it.
I'm willing to take a loss to help grow the community. The backend has random outages with CPU & memory, so I'm using the lowest-tier general-purpose dedicated CPU instance. I was using memory-optimized before.
Yes, agree. That's why I think everyone should use them more. They're super helpful for all. I can make my font smaller and see just as well. If more people demand something like this then those that need it will have it.
You're not taking away from someone by using it. If anything, you're helping to normalize it for those that may need it more. I find it super useful. I discovered it when I saw it as a font on my Kindle. I was like.. is there a mono version?
I installed it, and it crashed the browser on every page. I think it has some bugs still to work out. It took me longer than I'm proud to admit to figure out why pages weren't loading properly and the tabs kept using too much memory.
Yes, when I started talking to other admins that’s when I realized how over prepared I was compared to them.
That’s what made me decide to do the downgrade. I might do it again at some point.