4 applicants x 5-10 hours is .5 to 1 full time employees. Very generously speaking the ask here is for 100k/yr in free labor. The stringent interview process is going to be very limiting on potential candidates.

The experience isn’t going to be a learning experience since you’re looking for people that already know it all and I wouldn’t even put it on a resume, it just advertises to employers you’re ok being lowballed.

Perhaps this is a necessity for an instance of this size, but to me that seems to indicate that lemmy.world has reached the upper end of reasonable scalability, which given the workings of the fediverse would be fine.

it’s the popular one on grafana.com - https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/1860-node-exporter-full/