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I wonder how easy it is for a small instance to get overwhelmed quickly, though. One of my responses to Nova got boosted by her, and my media storage and datab

by zeeZ 4y ago

I wonder how easy it is for a small instance to get overwhelmed quickly, though. One of my responses to Nova got boosted by her, and my media storage and database size immediately spiked (600MiB to 1.3GiB and 20MiB to 42MiB). Requests went from none to 20/sec, just by that triggering more people to favorite and boost. I imagine if I ever manage to post something profound that someone with even greater influence happens to like, my server will be doomed.

rakoo 4y ago
20 requests/sec is absolutely nothing for a server in 2022. Even if you have many relationships, any individual server will handle the load without any fuss. Worth that can happen is a few minutes in the propagation of messages, which is not exactly a big problem. Seriously, there is no technical reasons we don't self-host; only "cultural" ones (it's hard, it's work, it's painful, and such)