Thank you for all that you do to stand the instance up for us. Being brand new and at risk of asking something that's a) in the FAQ or b) offensive, do you accept donations to help with running costs?
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2023
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Hmm. Hosting this instance costs me currently ~9 € per month for me and I'm employed, so I don't think there is a need for donations to help with running costs.
ok :)
Well thank you very much for doing this.
Well you're just an awesome person. If you ever need help with visual content or other things I can help! (Photo editing, video, designs, 3D modelling and so on). I can also help with other IT things if needed I'm just not much of a coder though.
Oh, thank you for the offer! At least in the visual department Sopuli doesn't need anything new, the logo made by William Rudi (https://www.artstation.com/williamrudi) was the thing with most visual effort.
And it's awesome, big friendly face which I'm not gonna lie is one of the main reasons I chose the server haha. The other being that it was the only one that seemed like a general-topic, EU based server. Maybe that's something to lean on to grow the European userbase?
You're welcome, happy to have helped. I run 11 fediverse instances, all at Hetzner. The largest being https://mastodon.world with 164k users. My Lemmy instance is the newest, created 2 days ago.
Bit of a painful start but hopefully 80 gigs will tame the beast.
Out of curiosity, how much disk space does this instance use? It doesn't seem like there's an extreme amount of users/posts/comments based on what I can see from the "Communities" page.
From what you describe it seems this small instance uses a few gigabytes of disk space already?
Or does it maybe have to do with the federation of other instances? Do their posts/comments also have to be stored locally in sopuli's instance's database?
Posts and comments are all text, so they take barely any space at all. Posts from remote instances are also stored in the local database. However images are a much bigger factor, and Docker also takes a lot of space for some reason.
I did so that out of 80 GB half is allocated for Sopuli and the other half for Docker. Before extending disk space again and running ansible-playbook -i inventory/hosts lemmy.yml --become, Docker had eaten all of the 20 GB extra disk space like Nikocado Avocado. Now after running the command and getting 40GB of extra disk space each, Docker uses only 1.4 GB (4 %) of it. Sopuli uses now 10 GB (27 %).
I was there when it happened!browsing one moment and then Puff! It's weird being at the birth of a site and watch all of this stuff unfold but I have high hopes for this place!
Sudden influx of new users or something else going on, because I'm getting occasionally "network request failed" errors?
I noticed the same thing too, this is getting weird.
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