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Just started self hosting this instance. Nothing on the docs mentioned anything about storage considerations.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

im running 50 users right now, subbed to A LOT of communities, seeing db growth of about 100mb per day.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (11 children)

That seems high when you extrapolate that to 10000 users, like a larger instance might have.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

It's all about how many communities your user(s) subscribe to since your instance basically acts as a mirror for those.

My instance has been running for 23 days, and I am pretty much the only active local user:

7.3G    pictrs
5.3G    postgres

edit: I may have a slight ~~Reddit~~ Lemmy problem

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So if you're the only user (let's assume for ease) then, that represents all the updates (posts, comments, votes) from each community that you are subscribed to?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, and I purposely subscribe to (or sometimes have a dedicated "federation helper bot" account I run subscribe to) most of the most popular communities on the most popular instances so I can get a decent sampling of what's going on in the fediverse on the "All" feed. So I assume my storage usage is maybe a bit higher than what an "average" single-user instance may be...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

lmao same here. I have a spare account that I use to sub to everything worth subbing to. I haven't automated it yet though.

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

Ooh, that's a really good idea, I need a federation helper bot/account when I start self-hosting a Lemmy instance!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's not automated or anything, I just pop an incognito window and use it when there is a communitI think is worth seeing sometimes in "All" (or just for archiving purposes) but don't want to clutter "Subscribed". I may make something to auto-subscribe to communities meeting some criteria or something at some point in the future...

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