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Should I host my own instance if I don't intend to run a community? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (10 children)

How is your RAM/storage usage? I'm interested in setting up my own instance (no communities, just a username that will always be here) but don't want to upgrade my VPS again. I already had to do that spinning up a Mastodon server.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    My raspberry pi 4 is using 810mb of RAM and 11gb of file system space.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's interesting to read. Could an instance be added to an existing setup? (Debian OS)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    So long as you can run Docker, I would think that you could setup an instance. You just need to make sure that the image you use for lemmy and lemmy-ui are compatible with your platform. I had to alter the provided docker-compose.yml file to use arm64 versions for my RaspberryPi.

    I mentioned the total disk usage for the sake of setting up a pi. I don't know what the space requirements are for lemmy separate from the bulkiness of an Ubuntu 22.04 install.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I’m up to about 300MB of disk usage after a day of hosting my own. Curious to see how it grows.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Up to 400MB after two days here. I took a look at the code and it looks like Lemmy keeps all ActivityPub JSON for 6 months. It would be nice if it was possible to shorten that.

    I'm still happy that I'm hosting my own instance, but I hope this thing doesn't get too big!

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