A couple days ago, someone posted on /0 (the meta community for the Divisions by zero) that the incoming federation from lemmy.world (the largest lemmy instance by an order of magnitude) is malfunctioning. Alarmed, I started digging in, since a federation problem with lemmy.world will massively affect the content my community can see. As always [...]
I’m curious how you think “everything on the same box” scales? You can’t load balance, you can’t ensure resources are being used efficiently, you can’t even reboot a machine without the entire thing going dark.
Lemmy.ml runs on a single server and is much bigger than db0. Sure you can’t get 100% availability this way but no one expects that.