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Looks like the guy who runs it runs a lot of fediverse servers, I guess he knows what he's doing: https://lemmy.world/u/ruud
Yes. And I'm asking him to share his tweaks here with the community so that others instance admins can shore-up their servers :)
More like throw more $$$ at the problem has been the solution.
Saying this without any knowledge of lemmy's backend... Large, high user count databases with (very quickly) growing demand take more power than generally expected. At a certain point, throwing money at the problem is the solution.
I respect anyone working with any amount of databases. Just my selfhosted operation made me realize how fucking complicated and stupid but nessasary databases are