Maybe I should clarify with "each user successfully spun up..." I'm mostly curious if the 5000 microservers trying to federate is a more sustainable access pattern than 5000 users hitting the website.
Since federation is an async process, it can be optimized on both ends in a way that user browser requests cannot.
At the same time, federation would overall result in more bandwidth being used because not every user wants to view every post in the frontend.
But instance federation is an async process that is happening constantly. A user on your instance may be a realtime load, its only sporatic (on a per user basis). Basically, me spinning up an instance is a constant burden on the network, but me browsing is just a temporary load on a single server.
My understandings is that the best situation is a good number of powerful machines with instances with users evenly distributed amongst them.
But instance federation is an async process that is happening constantly. A user on your instance may be a realtime load, its only sporatic (on a per user basis). Basically, me spinning up an instance is a constant burden on the network, but me browsing is just a temporary load on a single server.
My understandings is that the best situation is a good number of powerful machines with instances with users evenly distributed amongst them.
Maybe I should clarify with “each user successfully spun up…” I’m mostly curious if the 5000 microservers trying to federate is a more sustainable access pattern than 5000 users hitting the website.
Sustainable in what sense?
It's way more sustainable in the sense of "one website is not controlling the entirety of the experience of a given type of service for 5000 users", for example. I think it's important to talk about specific kinds of sustainability, and specific threats to it.
Things to consider (apart from bandwidth-related considerations):
that ansible book works great, its just a bash script away from regular user DiY.
I've watched people who never used a computer install blockchain nodes and miners (including the networks). If someone wants to do it, they WILL figure it out.
Sure I'm not saying they won't I'm saying there's not that many people who 'want' to beyond the effort of clicking install
thanks for using Leebra!
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Possibly failure, because setup isn't just a simple or of box plop. And i can't see how pings from 5000 microservers is better than 5000 users looking to register? But that's more of a question than an informed opinion
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