I kind of want to self host a lemmy instance. What are the requirements for a single user lemmy instance?

  • Eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws
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    1 month ago

    Depends on how many communities do you subscribe too and how much activity they have.

    I’m running my single user instance subscribed to 20 communities on a 2c/4g vps who also hosts my matrix server and a bunch of other stuff and right now I mostly see peaks from 5/10% of CPU and RAM at 1.5GB

    I have been running for 15months and the docker volumes total 1.2GBs A single pg_dump for the lemmy database in plain text is 450M

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
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      1 month ago

      I subscribe to a few more communities and my DB dump is about 3GB plain text, but same story, box sits at 5-15% most of the time.

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        1 month ago

        How much storage did it use overall? I had one instancs running on a 40gb HDD VM and it ran out of disk space in like 2,5 months. From what I’ve seen it was a mixture of 66,6/33,3 postgres/ images and other media. Didn’t had the time to learn how to clean it up and prevent it from happening again after a month. All happens like may to August last year.