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What hardware are you using for your self-hosted lemmy instance? (culture0.cc)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

4vcpu (Ryzen), 8GB RAM, 256gb disk (which will be expanded when it gets to like 60% full). Not too worried about storage unless I get a bunch of image-happy users, text all comes in as json and goes straight to Postgres so it’s not a concern.

[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How many users do you have? Not starting a server any time soon, just curious. A you seem to have one of the bigger ones in this thread and are using them for privately. Are you public?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Mine is public, yes. Not sure how many active users I have, 28 signups but my sidebar shows 5 monthly active users so far. I imagine this will pick up once people start commenting and posting more.

[–] ChaosAD 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 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.