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Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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[-] jason@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 years 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.

[-] rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.io 19 points 3 years ago

I’m up to about 300MB of disk usage after a day of hosting my own. Curious to see how it grows.

[-] jason@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 years ago

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

[-] knova@links.dartboard.social 9 points 3 years ago

Mastodon is aggressive with caching media. Akkoma is more lightweight

[-] Jamoke@lemmy.themainframe.org 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

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

[-] rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.io 7 points 3 years ago
  1. Some of those are lemmy.ml and not a lot of comments, etc have synced yet.
[-] Jamoke@lemmy.themainframe.org 3 points 3 years ago

Gotcha, thanks. I'm at about 70 so that makes sense then.

[-] gabe565@lemmy.cook.gg 2 points 3 years 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!

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 12 points 3 years ago

For personal use, even a Raspberry Pi is sufficient.

My raspberry pi 4 is using 810mb of RAM and 11gb of file system space.

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