Just in case anyone is using their account here to post to off-instance communities: those posts and comments seem to have a very high failure rate. There is a lot of activity and accounts on this instance. This is to raise awareness, not to pull people away or break up the lemmyverse. Quite the opposite really: there is a technical problem on this instance that might be preventing the lemmyverse from functioning as it should.
Upload will depend on your user’s activity (posting/voting/commenting.) Download will depend on that PLUS what the users are subscribed to.
Just trying to get a sense if it’s worth bothering with my 10Mbit up.
It’s really quick to get running. You need a fairly reliable IP/hostname as this is how your server will talk to all other servers and users. If you use dynamic dns, make sure it’s rapidly updated if your ip changes.