Firstly, thanks for running this instance. After reddit harakiri, this is god sent.
I was wondering how resource intensive is it to run this server? I hope the reddit refugees won't put a big hole in your hosting bill.
Others like me could also host a server, if there is tremendous load on this one.
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dzuhR2BKb3nbMKBGvdMarLDCyoVr2G@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y
Hey, yeah I actually was going to see if I could post the full setup and cost on this later, but since you're asking now I'll just go ahead and post it here!
The domain - programming.dev - cost $560 or something like that for the first year, then it's $427 for every year after.
The lemmy instance is running on a Vultr High Frequency instance at the lowest tier. I thought I could up it if we started getting high traffic, but expect the server to run just fine for quite a number of users. I do think I might have to move postgres off to its own dedicated instance, but haven't really thought too much about that yet.
I think bandwidth is actually going to be the biggest issue, because if we federate with other massive instances then even if there is only a small number of users, we're pulling in all the traffic from the other instances. I can definitely understand only allowing a few instances, but not sure I'm going to restrict that just yet. If people can donate then that shouldn't be a problem.
The email is all running through SendGrid. I was going to use Mailgun, but Sendgrid is a bit easier to use and has a lot higher cap, and I expected to get to that in time. Currently SG costs nothing, but I expect it to cost $35 a month after my trial runs out...
lowleveldata@programming.dev · 7 pts · 3y
Still couldn't believe that domain name was available lol
dzuhR2BKb3nbMKBGvdMarLDCyoVr2G@programming.dev · 5 pts · 3y
yeah pretty amazing honestly
wit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Damn, that domain is expensive!
HairHeel@programming.dev · 0 pts · 3y
Does that pull all traffic from that instance, or only traffic related to the specific communities from those instances that people have subscribed to?
Seems like a good opportunity for improvement if it’s the former.
snowe@programming.dev · 1 pts · 3y
it's very hard for me to tell. the logs are incredibly noisy. I'd hope the latter, but haven't dug in.
admin@lemmyrs.org · 1 pts · 3y
Hey! I recently made a post detailing the instance I run. Admittedly it's tiny compared to the big ones but I wanted to get something going :)
LukeLanguageModel@programming.dev · 0 pts · 3y
probably not the right place to ask this, but anyone know where i can find the developer docs/ api for programming.dev?
erlingur@programming.dev · 1 pts · 3y
I found this: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/contributors/04-api.html
LukeLanguageModel@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y
thanks!