Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

  • jason@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    How is your RAM/storage usage? I’m interested in setting up my own instance (no communities, just a username that will always be here) but don’t want to upgrade my VPS again. I already had to do that spinning up a Mastodon server.

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        1 year ago

        haha better than the 12GB and rising of my single-user Mastodon instance. And this is with deleting my media cache every night.

      • Jamoke@lemmy.themainframe.org
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        1 year ago

        The pictures folder on my instance is at 1.3GB. It’s just me and my friend. About how many communities are you subscribed to?

      • gabe565@lemmy.cook.gg
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        1 year ago

        Up to 400MB after two days here. I took a look at the code and it looks like Lemmy keeps all ActivityPub JSON for 6 months. It would be nice if it was possible to shorten that.

        I’m still happy that I’m hosting my own instance, but I hope this thing doesn’t get too big!

        • livingcoder@lemmy.austinwadeheller.com
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          1 year ago

          So long as you can run Docker, I would think that you could setup an instance. You just need to make sure that the image you use for lemmy and lemmy-ui are compatible with your platform. I had to alter the provided docker-compose.yml file to use arm64 versions for my RaspberryPi.

          I mentioned the total disk usage for the sake of setting up a pi. I don’t know what the space requirements are for lemmy separate from the bulkiness of an Ubuntu 22.04 install.