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What exactly is the cost of self hosting a Lemmy instance? Understandably you would want a powerful server, but that would be just a single one time purchase.

Where does the rest of the cost come in? Does it require more than a 2 gigabit connection and thus require a data centers 10 gigabit connection?

If I could run an instance on 2 gigabits and spending a 1-3 thousand on a server then I'd be interested in giving it a try.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

"If you need to use the swap, you're doing it wrong" -- That's what I learned long ago. And it has held up so far.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Interesting. I've never heard that. I use swap all the time and it's saved me from OOM scenarios. I'm currently limited on RAM so maybe it makes more sense for my situation.

[–] vividspecter 5 points 2 years ago

zram and other compressed swap approaches can help too (with less of a performance hit) although I use real swap as a fallback. Some would recommend using zswap in that case, but I still want compression in ram to be heavily prioritised but YMMV.

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