In line with our userbase growth (I think we flew over 100.000 accounts), we need to scale up various quotas we had in place. Up until today, users were limited to 10 upvoats per 24 hours if their CCP was lower than X. I just bumped this limit to 100 upvoats per day. Let's see how it goes.
Also, we are working hard on optimizing our existing code before throwing your donation money at more servers. And yes, my vacation is no longer a vacation even though I am still away from home, we're way past that point now. I am putting all my time on handling this influx and I want you guys to know that I won't be able to relax until voat load time goes down to under 1.5 seconds.
Edit: you can try upvoating this announcement post to test if the limit increase works (hehe)
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What resources do you need?
I'm not a developer so I can't help with that, but I've done my fair share of bulletproofing monster sites. There are definitely techniques that can offload server resources. I haven't examined the site, but you can drop significant resources by using a CDN or caching content that doesn't need to be generated every pageload. I'd imagine that your bottleneck is the database at this point, sharding should be pretty painless and could do magical things.