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flashgnash@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?

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Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?

flashgnash@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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      You offer paid hosting with hardware in your garage? I’m getting dot-com flashbacks!

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          obtaining offsite backups solution

          I read this as

          Put servers in my mum’s garage

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            Mom’s spare bedroom closet 70 miles away, but yeah.

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          Gigachad is hitting five nines in their garage.

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      I was wondering what Gilfoyle was up to these days

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        forget Gilfoyle I wanna know what Anton is doing to Chat GPT

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      How does load balancing work across this fediverse… if at all?

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          Great explanation, thanks for the write up! I have a couple of questions, if I may.

          • So if I setup my own instance tomorrow, it’d be sending notifications of activity to all the other instances? Maybe I’d have to have a list of instances I’d like to notify? How does it discover the other instances?

          • If my instance is listening to all other instances? Won’t saving all posts take up a lot of disk space? I guess there is only text and link data and no media, but wouldn’t it add up fast as the number of users/instances grow ?

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      Now you just need solar or something feeding a battery to cover most of your electricity costs.

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