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[Question] Is this level of activity too much for my network? Should I use a web host instead running a lemmy instance locally? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking to host a lemmy instance for a small subreddit. I I am unsure if the load would be too much for my home network. In the last 30 days we got 1.7k comments, 96 posts, 95k views, with an average unique of 809.

My home internet connection is 100mb/s down, 20mb/s up. I use the network to work from home as well as general internet degeneracy when I'm off the clock. I have two roommates also using the network for personal stuff, but not working from home. Would this put too much load on my home network?

If it does, could anyone recommend a good web host service that is compatible with lemmy?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would most likley be fine, however IMO hosting a public service on your home network without segregation such as firewall/vlans etc, it can attract people on the internet who will try and break in, you won't have things like DDOS protection either

You'd be best getting a cheap VPS off somewhere like OVH, Linode, Hetzner etc with a public IP and run your instance there, that way it is entirely seperate but also you have options to upgrade system resources for little up front expense

Again, probably fine but I'd not do it personally

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My understanding had been that I'd still be hosting it locally with a VPS but I'm probably misunderstanding that as this the first time I'm looking into this kind of thing. I'll take a look at those VPS services you mentioned. Thank you.

Additionally, it was my understanding that using cloudflare and nginx proxy would protect me from DDOS. Am I misunderstanding that?