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.

  • Rick@thesimplecorner.org
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    1 year ago
    • 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
    
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      1 year ago

      There’s my current disk usage. I’ve gone wild subscribing to just about every community I come across to see how the storage adds up. Right now I’ve got ~150 communities subbed. We’ll see how it goes and when I’ll need to expand the storage.

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      I don’t know what part of the world you’re from, but $5 for that sounds like a rip-off. For example take Netcup (https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vps.php) which is hosted in Germany (I have my server there).