I kind of want to self host a lemmy instance. What are the requirements for a single user lemmy instance?

  • HamSwagwich@showeq.comEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Raspberry Pi will handle it.

    It’s all about the storage space. Processing requirements are minimal.

  • Mio@feddit.nuEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    I am wondering if it is that good to have single instance for feddiverse. It hurt feddiverse servers to send to yet another location, or is it more like p2p so it scales well?

  • Mitex LeoAEnglish
    11·
    4 hours ago

    It doesn’t require much resources. You can run on a 5$ linode.

  • mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    I did this for a while. However, after subscribing to several groups, there was constant disk activity and it ate network bandwidth. After two months I’ve stopped my server and went back to using a public instance.

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Sure. It’s constantly pulling all the posts, comments and likes from potentially hundreds of instances and writing it to it’s database to make it accessible to you once you decide to open Lemmy. It’ll get updates from the network every few seconds (unless all the Americans are asleep) and that’ll cause some database operations on your side.

      Concerning the requirements: You’ll need some form of server, and probably a domain name. If you’re doing it at home, make sure you have a proper IP address and can forward ports. I run a Piefed instance, not Lemmy. It uses a few hundreds of megabytes of RAM and a bit of CPU and disk. It doesn’t cache media files as Lemmy does so I can’t comment on the storage size. It’s 3GB for me.

  • Eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.wsEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Depends on how many communities do you subscribe too and how much activity they have.

    I’m running my single user instance subscribed to 20 communities on a 2c/4g vps who also hosts my matrix server and a bunch of other stuff and right now I mostly see peaks from 5/10% of CPU and RAM at 1.5GB

    I have been running for 15months and the docker volumes total 1.2GBs A single pg_dump for the lemmy database in plain text is 450M

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I subscribe to a few more communities and my DB dump is about 3GB plain text, but same story, box sits at 5-15% most of the time.

      • ture@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        How much storage did it use overall? I had one instancs running on a 40gb HDD VM and it ran out of disk space in like 2,5 months. From what I’ve seen it was a mixture of 66,6/33,3 postgres/ images and other media. Didn’t had the time to learn how to clean it up and prevent it from happening again after a month. All happens like may to August last year.