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Lemmy is booming
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this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2023
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Well, it got me to try installing an instance of my own. We’ll see if I manage to keep it running 😂
I've not quite been running mine for a day, so far. So, I'm not a great authority. But, so far, all the docker containers together are taking less than 500MB RAM and barely any CPU. And this is on a repurposed old gaming PC in my basement that's also hosting Mastodon, Calckey, and a bunch of other ill-advised crap. I've been using tailscale and a super cheap linux cloud host with some reverse proxies to expose the services to the internet
I have been running a (unfortunately still low local volume) instance with a big federation pool for a while now, and resources are really manageable. CPU usage is almost non-existent (save for a few short spikes), pretty much always below 5% of my ~2GHz vCPU. RAM has never gone above 500MB, and typically sits around 250MB (mostly from postgres). Network I/O has never surpassed 50MB combined daily. Disk I/O is slightly higher, averaging at 40MB combined daily.
Overall, it's really cheap to get a Lemmy instance up and running for you and some friends, and with the officially provided Ansible setup (and I believe there's a Yunohost package as well), getting one operational is pretty easy.
The yunohost package is broken and outdated unfortunately. It’s a version behind and it doesnt support image uploading (for users submitting content OR for admins adding a server logo).
I have never used Ansible before yesterday, and I figured it out in about 15 minutes using the official Lemmy documentation. I’d encourage anyone reading this who is considering administering an instance to skip the Yunohost package for Lemmy at this time.
Oh, that's a pity :(
Someone should take the lead there then. But yeah, Ansible is pretty great! I rock my own setup because I feel more comfortable this way, but it was originally based on the first Ansible setup hehe
I don’t want it to seem like I am talking down on the “Lemmy for Yunohost” package maintainers. They are doing a job I could not do, and for zero compensation. It’s just unfortunately not receiving the attention it needs for production purposes, IMO
I did not read it like that either! Perhaps I misworded. I meant that, since last update seems to have been on September 25th 2022, the maintainer probably is too busy right now, and if someone else feels they could help out, they should :)
For Mastodon, it depends how popular you get. The more followers on other instances you have, the more instances your instance has to send your post to whenever you make a post.
For Lemmy, I think the equivalent would be if you were hosting a community and you/others are posting in it, it then has to send to everyone who's subbed. If you're only hosting an instance to have an account, then it's probably pretty lightweight.
I heard earlier today that beehaw is running on a sub $20/mo VPS and they have a decent user count
@lmorchard
Cool! I have my own Friendica instance 👍 which I'm also using for posting on Lemmy. I prefer to have one account for everything whenever possible 😃