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Why stop with power? We should aim for water outages as well! Just when I was starting to think this might not be a pathological ideology...
Good luck to the admins though, I appreciate the effort to stay out of cloud. It's hard to maintain constant uptime when you don't have teams of people dedicated to keep stuff afloat.
Now when I think about it, is it even possible to run lemmy on a cluster, like a regular web app, or is it a monolith?
Happy cakeday :)
My home country has a general guideline for all the inhabitants: keep stocked up on emergency food water + some other stuff enough that you can survive 3 day power, water and other outages.
Been living with that in mind for a long time!
Never been under a true test though.
There's a page for info on horizontal scaling Lemmy here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/horizontal_scaling.html
It does seem to be out of date (for one, it mentions that pict-rs can't be horizontally scaled due to the sled database, but pict-rs now supports postgres so maybe that has changed.
I know larger instances run a separate federation container and many instances (including mine) run multiple lemmy-ui containers for the front end, but as I understand it the Lemmy backend can only run as a single service.