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How will lemmy instances survive if they get too big?

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I know there’s donations and the owners can use their own money, but there’s a limit. I doubt a platform with hundreds of thousands of daily users can survive with only donations.

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jws_shadotak@lemmy.world
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Are you talking about a specific server or just Linux servers in general?

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fubo@lemmy.world
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I’m referring to the old “c10k problem”.

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mrmanager@lemmy.today
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I think this doesn’t apply? Aren’t they talking about 10k simultaneously connected users here? With http you connect and disconnect for every request.

Also the database is likely to give timeout errors way before you reach the socket limits.

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