Gregory's Server
@losttourist Yeah, I seem to recall after the dreaded birdsite migration of Eternal September 2022, event someone (was it @Gargron or @SDF I am forgetting now) spun up a Mastodon instance on some hardware with 72GB of RAM.
Which, is still about half what blade servers had that I was administering circa 2015, but capacity planning for sudden influxes isn't easy, even with budgets and paid ops teams.
It's a lot more challenging with nascent hobby projects.
Maybe we need a new term for the variation of slashdot effect concordent with some surveillance capitalism SaaS implosion? I get the impression, they're only going to continue with more frequency, both because: more people are waking up, and the libre/free open source alternatives are continuing to improve!