There were some Lemmy-related discussions going on this past weekend. I think this is the one tidbit everyone around Hacker News wants to know:
> The current VPS couldn't be resized that much anymore, and load was going up with all the new users. So I bought the same server at Hetzner: a 32-core/64 thread 128GB RAM dedicated server. (For Mastodon, I doubled the RAM. For Lemmy I don't think it's needed yet.) I migrated the Lemmy software and database there, and moved over. This took 4 minutes of downtime.
So 32-core/64-threads with 128GB of RAM is running Lemmy.world, which is supporting ~36.7k users at the moment.
> The current VPS couldn't be resized that much anymore, and load was going up with all the new users. So I bought the same server at Hetzner: a 32-core/64 thread 128GB RAM dedicated server. (For Mastodon, I doubled the RAM. For Lemmy I don't think it's needed yet.) I migrated the Lemmy software and database there, and moved over. This took 4 minutes of downtime.
So 32-core/64-threads with 128GB of RAM is running Lemmy.world, which is supporting ~36.7k users at the moment.
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A brief look at Hertzner comes up with: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax161
A 32-core/64 thread + 128GB RAM server in Germany for 142 EUR / month.