feedleMar 25, 2024

What a weekend! And yet, our machines handled the #hackernews load like champs! 💪

Here are some stats for the techy geeks:

We run feedle as a cluster of load-balanced container instances across several physical servers rented on #Hetzner. We've generously given each instance enough CPU, and yet, despite the HN rush, it barely registered. That's all thanks to the clever choice of backend technology, and using async wherever possible.

---
#java #quarkus

Show threadMax Lee 
@feedle Running on Hetzner seems like a bad choice for this. What if someone searches for content containing references to homosexuality? They might ban your whole account...
Mar 25, 2024 at 9:16amWeb
Show threadfeedleMar 25, 2024
@the_moep we’ve used Hetzner servers for many years, and never had any issues of that sort. Having in mind that some of the largest Mastdon instances are being hosted there, we’ve always assumed that there should be no problems, whatsoever. Maybe, @lenzgr or any of the Hetzner fellows can shed some more light on that.
Show threadMax Lee Mar 25, 2024
@feedle Well they recently tried to take down the trans instance woem.men for someone posting a picture of two anime girls kissing... (see https://social.tchncs.de/@mynacol@mynacol.xyz/112149722065637197)
Mynacol (@[email protected])

@ashten So transphobes, you chose #streisand effect? Context: Transphobes reported the attached picture on woem.men as child pornography(?). #Cloudflare forwarded the complaint to #Hetzner, which ...