I kind of want to self host a lemmy instance. What are the requirements for a single user lemmy instance?

  • mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    I did this for a while. However, after subscribing to several groups, there was constant disk activity and it ate network bandwidth. After two months I’ve stopped my server and went back to using a public instance.

      • mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        I didn’t notice any big drops in network or CPU performance. Usually, because other network traffic had priority. But my server’s HDD constantly rattling along got me thinking that it wasn’t worth it. There are several other containers running on that box and I don’t have that much HDD activity with them.

  • mesamune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 months ago

    I have one running on the equivalent of a pi. It works no problem. The biggest issue is the constant io and network traffic but it’s not terrible.

    I wish there was a only poll once every x amount of time instead of the constant polling, but it’s a good solution. I use lemmy.world as the main account and the other account when I need to post under my real name with some projects I run. Plus it makes for a good development instance since I work on lemmy from time to time

  • Findmysec@infosec.pubEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    You really only need Storage. Backblaze B2/Wasabi/Cloudflare R2 if you can afford it, or just get a Hetzner storage box, attach it to the VM, run Minio and off you go.