I’m the sysadmin for beehaw.org and our user-base has almost tripled in 24 hours. Our site has been crashing so much over this time period.
We do have some volunteers that are trying to figure out a reasonable solution for when this happens again four weeks from now.
Do you have any recommendations?
Hey, a little late, but maybe contact the Admin for lemm.ee they have horizontally scaled lemmy and it seems to be working. There is a config setting to disable scheduled tasks which should be disabled on all but one from what I remember, and then load balance across the rest