Gregory's Server
Leonardo Di Ottio
@Gargron The #Trump #Mastodon rip-off is struggling. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60922717
Any ideas what their tech hurdles could be?
I assume they’re limiting new users because they expect their servers couldn’t cope with 1.5 million users. I also assume they’re not allowed on AWS, Azure etc.
Would, however, hiring a bunch of very heavy VPS instances from your typical far-right hosters not be enough to handle this load? Perhaps that is/was the role of Rumble?
@LeonardoDiOttio Scaling any service to millions of users requires some expertise that most developers and devops never get unless they work for one of the large companies, and from what I understand, they did not poach any FAANG people. Add to that that their developers did not actually develop the software and may lack critical understanding of its internals, and it starts to look like what we're seeing...