A couple days ago, someone posted on /0 (the meta community for the Divisions by zero) that the incoming federation from lemmy.world (the largest lemmy instance by an order of magnitude) is malfunctioning. Alarmed, I started digging in, since a federation problem with lemmy.world will massively affect the content my community can see. As always [...]
This is my job, so I’ll counter that this isn’t realistic, and in a professional situation it would probably be hosted in kubernetes which spans multiple servers and sometimes multiple regions - I don’t think the devs have a readme for that… (or maybe they do). The point being that the official docs are geared for a hobbyist to set up a node and not having separate VMs makes sense in that scenario. However I would say that it’s plain that mister db0 has a much larger instance than could be considered hobbyist at this point.