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What specs for a self-hosted Lemmy instance? (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, a shout-out for assistance. I’m considering hosting a Lemmy instance (assuming I can pass the wife test on costs) and I’m looking for some guidance on specs.

Can anyone who’s currently hosting an instance (or who knows the inner workings of one) please reply with:

specs on the hardware / VPS that’s hosting your instance
how many users / posts that’s supporting
what the system load looks like with the above
if locally hosting, the type of bandwidth requirements you’re seeing

I previously posted this in the wrong community, and one of the responses asked how many users I'm expecting. To preemptively answer - I don't know. I'm just trying to get an idea of relative sizing.

Thank you!!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

running fine on contabo small instance with 50 users. ~20% CPU

[–] Shit 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How fast is the disk use growing for you?

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

not terrible, db is about ~100mb a day, running about 20 days now and have a 4.4gb in images.

thinking about a mod to move images off to IPFS.

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

I read about using s3 storage for pictures. I am planning to use maybe backblaze for that or if I end up taking the beefy server, use a separate minIO instance. This is also great for scaling horizontally in the future, maybe.

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

federated forum, federated storage imo