okay i asked chatgpt to write a nice message about the feasibility of hosting the tranosphere on lemmy because im a lazyhon and dark woke:
Hello everyone,
To address questions about our new Lemmy instance’s capacity: we are currently running on a 2GB RAM server.
Because our instance is isolated and non-federated, 100% of the hardware is dedicated solely to our community, with zero background resources wasted on syncing with outside networks.
To ensure we have the right infrastructure, our capacity calculations were modeled using recent nicheprowler.com data specifically for the r/4tran4 subreddit. As the most active community in our sphere, its peak metrics (roughly 100 posts and 620 comments daily) serve as our maximum baseline. At this volume, the server workload is incredibly light—averaging just 30 database writes per hour. This setup can comfortably handle our readership and engagement at those levels.
If activity surges as we potentially migrate other related subreddits, scaling is a trivial DevOps task. Upgrading to a 4GB or 8GB server simply requires a brief hardware reboot resulting in about two to five minutes of scheduled downtime. We are fully provisioned for our current needs and ready to scale instantly when required.
so yeah… feel free to ask me any questions you might have but i honestly think we’re gonna have no problem unless we break the 500+ active users daily mark. and as you can see, even if we do we can just scale the machine up.
this is so cool!! btw what’s the difference between “Tranistan” and “4tran” in the communities tab? oh, and can i make a “Litttterature” and “fittttness” on here?
go absolutely crazy mode… be free my tranner child…
tranistan is the first sub i created as a “default” to test the lemmy instance. then yash created 4tran4 methinks. but yes, please do create as many communities as you see fit idrc
maybe you could remove all posts from tranistan and make it mod only, so it can function as a kind of admin notes and messages thing?
yay!! this is really fucking cool. it isn’t too expensive to host, i hope? i’ll be happy to chip in if we actually start using it
omg glad u like it!!! atm it’s only 12 bucks a month so it’s definitely manageable. idk how much yash paid for the domain but should hover around 15 dollars a year… so yeah… if push comes to shove maybe we open a crypto wallet or a paypal or some bullshit to pay for the costs idrk
yea, cool! people often have some crypto laying around after buying vials, so with a couple people chipping in through that every once in a while, it’ll probably be good