Selfhosted

shower thoughts... and still on my first cup of coffee to more just musing than anything ...

if storage is the concern wonder if the lemmy roadmap might one day include an option to use cloud based storage?

azure storage at .06/gb per month is likely cheaper and more redundant than local storage - even if you factor in calls to the blob which could be lowered via caching.

cloud storage potentially might one day lead to a option for smaller self hosters to opt into a shared blob instance where the and cost is shared.

in this scenario security to ensure the cloud blob couldn't be deleted would need to be thought through (maybe splitting the password among multiple admins with each having one part of the whole?) but might be one way to better encourage more self hosting for them compute side of things.

Using Oracles "Always free" instances.

4 vCPU (ARMv8, not sure about the speed) 24 GB RAM 200 GB Flash storage

If I can eventually get it to work, I'll be hosting my personal Lemmy instance on a Hetzner CX21 VPS (2 CPU, 4GB RAM). Unfortunately after about a dozen attempts, with many variables tweaked to try to narrow down the issue, I still get nothing but a spinning button when I try to login after installation. I find it so odd that some people have no problem getting it up-and-running, and it simply won't work for others.

Currently a 1CPU/2GB RAM Linode instance for 26 users. Linode's pricing gets insane as you scale up though so I will definitely be looking elsewhere if I need to scale much bigger. I think I could get away with 1gb of RAM at half the cost right now, but I'm also hosting a Matrix homeserver on this VPS and Synapse is a hungy boy.

From what I've heard (take this with a huge grain of salt) is that the posts themselves shouldn't take up much of your storage. The biggest thing that could take up your storage are images, but they are only stored on the instances where the community in which they were posted in is.

1 vCPU, 1GB Ram, 50GB storage using the smallest x86_64 compute instances on Oracle Cloud. Qualifies for always free which is nice while I'm simply testing out a personal server. It's working just fine within those constraints. For now, at least.

Like you, I'm worried about storage. I would like to run it from home, but I live in the woods and my internet isn't reliable enough.

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.

I host it on a low power PC in my closet. I also limit the resource usage to 2 cores and 2GB of RAM in Kubernetes (RKE2) config. My ISP won't give me any static IP, so I routed the traffic via a $3 VPS over tailscale network.

3vcpu,4gb ram, 80ssd. But I'm just running a personal servers, so it's plenty for my needs.

I'm using a Ramnode VPS since I had some unused credit I wanted to use up. 2 vcpu, 1 GB ram, and 35 GB ssd.

Seems to be working well enough so far, but right now it's just me. If I open up to more users, I might need to upgrade, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Edit: I may have spoke too soon; had to reboot the server due to low memory. Hopefully a swap file will alleviate that a bit, but I might have to upgrade the RAM on this server. We'll see.

It's definitely overkill, but right now I'm hosting it on my nomad cluster. It only has 4cpu/8gb allocated at the moment but will autoscale (vertically) if needed. I already have a separate postgres cluster used for other things so I'm just borrowing that for now too. I haven't tried running multiple instances yet but I'll probably test that out this week to see how/if it works.

I selfhost on my own homeserver. At the moment, I've spared it 2 cores, 1GB of RAM and 32GB of NVMe storage mirrored.

I have it running on my microk8s single node cluster. It's a dual xeon (40 cores total) with unfortunately only 64gb ram. The motherboard's max. I got a das with 72tb storage, currently in btrfs mirrored. Hoping btrfs raid-like configs become more usable in the future. I was using zfs but I always ran into issues.

I'm running it on an LXC container that lives on a proxmox cluster.

2 vCPU at 2.6Ghz. 2GB of RAM (it's LXC so I can allocate more if needed...) and 40GB of SSD-backed CEPH storage. I actually just upped this to 150GB because I can see the velocity of data I'm storing for this. I have about 2 more TB of storage on the CEPH cluster before I need to order a few more SSDs.

I have terrible internet, but I do have a static address. And they're installing fiber in my neighborhood right now. So that will change soon too.

Based on what I've seen thus-far, I suspect I can handle about a hundred users on this without much issue.

• 1 vCPU 2.9ghz
• 1 GB DDR4 Memory
• 25 GB NVMe/SSD Storage

5~ USD a month. Working great for personal use and I'd imagine a handful of users. Hosted in a data center that is very close to me.

Also fwiw: 4 days of lemmy. I am subbed to a bunch of stuff. I've only uploaded like three pictures to my instance... All that space is thumbnails from other instances.

692M    ./postgres
8.0K    ./lemmy-ui
499M    ./pictrs
1.2G    .
1.2G    total

I have thought about running my own, following this for the info.