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What hardware are you using for your self-hosted lemmy instance? (culture0.cc)

submitted 3 years ago by culturerevolt@culture0.cc to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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For those self-hosting a lemmy instance, what hardware are you using? I am currently using a small Hetzner VPS. It has 2 vCPU, 2GB RAM and 40GB SSD storage. My instance is currently just in testing with me as the only user, but I plan to use it for close friends or family that may want to try this out, but might not want to sign up for a different instance. My CPU and RAM usage is great so far. My only concern is how large the storage will balloon to over time. I’ve been up for ~20 hours and it’s grown to 1.5G total volume since.

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[-] flea@hive.atlanten.se 6 points 3 years ago

I just spun up my own instance. Trying it out. New to hosting lemmy. How do you guys list the disk usage? Where is lemmy? /Newb

[-] culturerevolt@culture0.cc 6 points 3 years ago

I used the ansible method to get running and I am using the default paths. If you are also using the default paths, you can find your data in /srv/lemmy// . This location will hold your configuration files and your volumes directory. The volumes directory holds postgres (the database), pictrs (your image hosting) and lemmy-ui (the web-ui for lemmy). To see how much disk space you are using:

cd /srv/lemmy/<domain>/

du -hc --max-depth=1 volumes

replace with your domain.

[-] flea@hive.atlanten.se 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Thanks! Not so bad apparently.

8.0K	volumes/lemmy-ui
271M	volumes/postgres
424M	volumes/pictrs

[-] nx2@feddit.de 5 points 3 years ago

If you are using docker just look at the volumes of the containers of the server, the UI and the two databases (one for stuff, one for pictures)

[-] flea@hive.atlanten.se 1 points 3 years ago

Thanks!

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