Just to add some more background on this: I used to work tightly with the Network Team in the website team of the biggest contender in its market (can't disclose which one without people figuring out the company since the market is a bit niche).

We had 20'000 Users a day with a lot of images served.

The whole infrastructure consisted of 2 Firewall servers and the main DB (pSQL) on 2 self-hosted servers (think colo, it was sitting in a very remote location with 2 big diesel generators that would've ran the whole datacenter for a week iirc), with 14 Hetzner backend mirrors who ran the whole PHP code, served images and the angular + some weird custom Javascript. Scaling was done by simply throwing more Hetzners at it.

Given that Lemmy runs super performance efficient in comparison to 20 year deprecated PHP code that held together with ducttape, I feel like much less could make it work.

I'm glad you moved away from AWS, I wouldn't even consider going for VM hosting and would've gone dedicated from the get go (or even self-hosting on a colo / using a good fiber connection at home, but I guess I live in a super privileged country when it comes to ISPs).

Isn't k8s a bit overkill tho? Front-loaded caching seems to make sense, but a single 10gbit dedi could probably resolve the issue easier and simpler, couldn't it?

You should stop refering to middle school biology and check out university biology. And maybe also stop refering to outdated knowledge that's been disproven.

That's kinda why I say we're the most discriminated group of people in the world. There's nowhere to be safe, not even in our own communities

I assume you've onky checked the massively overloaded kbin.social instance? Or is it a general issue with kbin itself?

So the only thing helping would be VPN + DNS change... not too easy, but not too hard either to be honest, but it will probably exclude a lot of people from access

damn that's pretty genius, although, doesn't the tin foil or the pocket between the window heat up?

Edit: sent from Sync for Lemmy

Wait what, you already got a prototype up and running? :o

I don't wanna be that kinda person, but it's possible the owner had some visitation from the local authorities. It's not uncommon to use a server for multiple things, and I could imagine that there might have been some... not so cool things on there

There's another one: access to media while in poverty

Haven't seen that one on ublock origin + Firefox

Can you throw me a link? I kinda missed it and am not sure if the search function would even find it