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What specs for a self-hosted Lemmy instance? (aussie.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, a shout-out for assistance. I’m considering hosting a Lemmy instance (assuming I can pass the wife test on costs) and I’m looking for some guidance on specs.

Can anyone who’s currently hosting an instance (or who knows the inner workings of one) please reply with:

specs on the hardware / VPS that’s hosting your instance
how many users / posts that’s supporting
what the system load looks like with the above
if locally hosting, the type of bandwidth requirements you’re seeing

I previously posted this in the wrong community, and one of the responses asked how many users I'm expecting. To preemptively answer - I don't know. I'm just trying to get an idea of relative sizing.

Thank you!!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

How are you routing it to the internet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm using hestiacp to host some websites anyway, so i just added a new nginx template to create reverse proxy to lemmy+lemmy_ui containers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I really want to figure out if it's possible to stick it behind cloudflare or something. I would rather not expose any IP address directly to the internet. I'm leaning on just setting up a reverse proxy on a cheap cloud instance back to my home.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My instance is actually behind cloudflare and it works fine, but remember that it would be possible to "expose" ip of your server due to federation, as your server will talk to other server (directly, that traffic won't go over cloudflare), so if you are paranoid about that, i would recommend setting up a wireguard tunnel to cloud instance, and forwarding the traffic that way, or just setup the lemmy on that instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks that's kind of what I was thinking. Have you used cloudflared before?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, i didn't, but i think it should also work over cloudflared

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