I kind of want to self host a lemmy instance. What are the requirements for a single user lemmy instance?
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
For the whole stack in the past 16 hours
# docker-compose stats
Thanks.
Put up some docker stats in a reply in case you missed it on the refresh
Checked it out, thanks.
These stats are fine and all, but storage and network is what’s going to get you in the end if you open it up to anyone and everyone and it becomes popular.
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.
I have one running on the equivalent of a pi. It works no problem. The biggest issue is the constant io and network traffic but it’s not terrible.
I wish there was a only poll once every x amount of time instead of the constant polling, but it’s a good solution. I use lemmy.world as the main account and the other account when I need to post under my real name with some projects I run. Plus it makes for a good development instance since I work on lemmy from time to time
Raspberry Pi will handle it.
It’s all about the storage space. Processing requirements are minimal.
You really only need Storage. Backblaze B2/Wasabi/Cloudflare R2 if you can afford it, or just get a Hetzner storage box, attach it to the VM, run Minio and off you go.
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?
The whole idea of the fediverse is decentralization and federation. It is a good thing
It doesn’t require much resources. You can run on a 5$ linode.