Hi. As you may know, I’ve opened the instance about 12 days ago. Right now, the instance is ranked 6th out of hundreds of instances.

We’re now using 4 vCPU and 16GB RAM server for 38€ which is very cheap (Not that cheap anymore. We’re using dedicated 16 CPU, 48GB RAM server for 160€). But we need donations to continue uploading media or even to increase the limit and move to a better server against instant load. Also we transfered 5TB of media only in 12 days 🤷‍♂️ Thanks to Cloudflare, this didn’t cause much trouble to us.

If you want to donate, here’s donation platforms we use:
Note: I removed old crypto payment methods and Patreon kicked us. We got $182 with old crypto payment methods and $80 from Patreon.
  • Th1ckAndCreamy@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    I set up a Patreon subscription. I am a DevOps Engineer. If you ever need to move to a more distributed setup let me know.

    • yay@lemmynsfw.comOPMEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Thank you for your support! But to keep costs low, we had to keep for one server for now. But you’re in my mind if needed :)

      • gabrielesilinic@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know if you already run on docker, but you could run on docker in order to simulate a distributed setup and be able to move the various pieces in and out as needed, also portainer and traefik are very nice for this, if you create a common network for all containers with a bit of docker compose magic you have a plug and play kind of setup

    • enki@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same. I’m happy to answer any questions or assist with the infra. This is basically what us idiots DevOps/SRE do on a daily basis: cut costs while improving performance and reliability.