Tiff
Self Proclaimed Internet user and Administrator of Reddthat
I’ve always wanted to do colocation and looked into it when I first started Reddthat and we had our initial growth. We are lucky we didn’t otherwise I would be out of money ages ago!
The aruba.it colocation is about the same price as our OVH server which would be probably the most viable as we are close to having enough donators to have a long enough runway it would make sense.
(Goal being: A$150/m ~ USD$100/€90. And OpenCollective doing some magical nonsense with the Total amount we have left and averaging it across 12 months or something)
The 32GB of RAM we have currently is overkill for an instance of our size. We could get away with using 16GB and still have room to grow for the next year. Which will probably be what will happen in April, but I’ll re-evaluate before then and see whether a colocation option is viable.
Our stance on downvotes, and lack of super-popular local communities means we are growing slowly over time and are very stable in requirements. Lemmy still being in it’s infancy means there are problems that are no fault of the hardware but the software. An example would be the latest issue we were experiencing where no matter what resources we had, it would result in 100% CPU usage for brief periods, with 10-20s page loads for everyone during that period.
I am very tempted but I still need to make sure I am being responsible with the donations. By next year we’ll most likely be over 1TB of object storage and our S3 costs will slowly start increasing MoM. While not a lot I still need to factor it in growing costs.
Whoa! Thanks for even considering donating. I won’t hold you to it if you happen to donate less later 😉
After testing ko-fi we still end up having the same fees compared with OpenCollective as it’s PayPal instead of Stripe. So in the end it’s better to go via OpenCollective. As it’s a lot more transparent and shows all the donations and will allow me to show all of our bills etc.
Thanks!
This should be fixed as we rolled out 0.19.5 today
Yes, you can upload images to Reddthat when posting, commenting, etc.
We have a CDN In front and aggressively cache all of the images.
3rd party images are fetched to generate a thumbnail, and to cache the image. The problem with this is, catbox can be slow at times and if that happens when you post it can’t generate them.
Some clients also only open the direct links instead of showing the cached image, resulting in images not loading, or taking forever to load.
I say if you are posting on Reddthat, I’m happy for people to use the features provided by Reddthat. So upload here, if you so wish.
Just remember that the images you upload are linked to your account.