With forewarning about a huge influx of users, you know Lemmy.ml will go down. Even if people go to https://join-lemmy.org/instances and disperse among the great instances there, the servers will go down.
Ruqqus had this issue too. Every time there was a mass exodus from Reddit, Ruqqus would go down, and hardly reap the rewards.
Even if it’s not sustainable, just for one month, I’d like to see Lemmy.ml drastically boost their server power. If we can raise money as a community, what kind of server could we get for 100$? 500$? 1,000$?
I’m relatively new to https://elest.io/pricing but it seems an easy way to scale stuff up (and down again) Dockerised, just upgrade the plan to the next tier when needed. Pay by the hour. Downgrade it again later.
There’s also a bunch of load balancer options I haven’t even begun to explore yet.
If you select Hetzner it’s EU based & powered by green energgy
With Elestio you can choose from a range of cloud providers.