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What hardware are you using for your self-hosted lemmy instance? (culture0.cc)
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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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[-] ChaosAD@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

I am going to host an instance as well and I am worried about disk space...

This server you are using is from an VPS provider? how much they cost?

[-] jon@lemmy.tf 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I've got a baremetal server with OVH running VMware, so it's just a VM that I manage. I'm paying more for it than I'd like, but it's running far more than just Lemmy. If I wind up ditching it in the future, it's just a quick vMotion off to another machine + DNS updates.

Here's a current output of my storage about a week into hosting the instance. It's growing slower than I expected, and I do have plans to move volumes/pictrs up to an s3 bucket whenever I start running low on local storage.

[jon@lemmy lemmy]# du -sh volumes/*
2.5G    volumes/pictrs
2.2G    volumes/postgres

I would recommend locking down SSH on your Lemmy server, I have mine restricted to allow logins from VPN only. Otherwise you'll get probed 24/7 with a public server.

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