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submitted 5 months ago by Shimitar@feddit.it to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Hi all!

I have decided to setup and selfhost my own private Lemmy instance.

I will be doing with docker (podman, actually).

Should I host at home or use a dedicated VPS?

Anybody selfhosting its own Lemmy?

Do you guys have any hints for me?

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[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Advice: make sure you deploy the latest version of Lemmy! The newest one solves a lot of federation/backend stuff (hint hint Lemmy.world).

[-] Shimitar@feddit.it 5 points 5 months ago

Ok, indeed, will go with latest for sure, thanks

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 9 points 5 months ago

You might be interested in our Podman quadlet scripts then: https://f-hub.org/Solarpunk/lemmy-podman

[-] Shimitar@feddit.it 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you! This is really interesting, will look into it.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

If you have less than 10 or so users, id say go ahead and self host. It's not terribly resource intensive at least not on my personal instance. I use it to test posts, solutions that will eventually make it's way into a pr, or just experiments and that can (and does) run on a pi.

[-] Shimitar@feddit.it 4 points 5 months ago

Thanks! I have a more powerful hardware than a pi, how is it about bandwidth?

I will have two, maybe three users.

Very very little. It's a billion tiny little bits of text, and if you have image caching enabled, then all those thumbnails.

My personal instance doesn't cache images since I'm the only one using it (which means a cached image does nobody any good), and i use somewhere less than 20gb a month, though I don't have entirely specific numbers, just before-lemmy and after-lemmy aggregates.

[-] Shimitar@feddit.it 2 points 5 months ago
[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 1 points 3 months ago

How do you turn caching off

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not too much. I don't have specific stats but there's not much video being shared. We are not at the level where it takes too much bandwidth.

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