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

submitted 1 year ago by culturerevolt@culture0.cc to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] culturerevolt@culture0.cc 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, images are where the main bulk of the storage is going. Interestingly, my instance is also just for my account presently and I have not submitted any images until my screenshot above. So these images are just those that are being pulled from other instances. I was under the impression that images were hosted from their respective instance and not saved locally, so I am curious to see how this plays out long term.

[–] falcon15500@lemmy.nine-hells.net 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thumbnails are stored locally, I believe.

[–] dimspace@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

if its only thumbnails and only impacting that local instance i presume you can just cron to clear out old thumbnails regularly if space is a huge issue.

[–] howdy@thesimplecorner.org 3 points 1 year ago

Confirmed. Investigated that earlier.