I will rent a v-server today with those specs: 2 CPU cores, 4GB RAM, 80GB disk space

I think it’s enough to run normal websites and even a game server, but I have no experience with the Fediverse.

Is this enough to run a few fediverse instances, like Lemmy and Mastodon or even others?

How much resources does Lemmy need in particular?

Thank you for your help.

  • @AgreeableLandscape
    7•2 years ago

    That’s more than enough for when you’re just starting an instance. I’d even knock that down to 1 core 1 GB RAM, which is like $5 a month on a host like Linode or DigitalOcean. The reason Lemmy.ml is experiencing trouble is that it’s one of the largest instances, we didn’t have problems until recently. The great thing about a VPS is that you can upgrade whenever you want, so I’d recommend saving some money by getting the cheapest one until your instance starts getting a lot of users. Every VPS host I know of shows you the resource usage history, so you can monitor it once in a while and upgrade when one of the stats is getting close to 100%.