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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] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Huh, proxmox on a i3-4130? That doesn’t choke on cpu? TBF, I’m assuming you’re running several other VMs. Also, why not docker?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Proxmox itself is pretty lightweight, and yes, i'm also running other VMs and LXC containers (not much, about 9 containers with some lite services like teamspeak server, couple of bots, deluge and hestiacp, prometheus, k3s for testing and "vdi" in vm). Actually - i'm running docker - inside LXC containers. Not the prettiest way to do it, but it works fine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fair enough. There are no rules for homelab; do what you want!

Out of curiosity, are you running a repurposed 1L OEM box? I’ve picked up a handful of those for dirt cheap, and they’re kinda fun to play around with!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Close enough! I'm using a HP z230 SFF, not as small as those 1L USFF, but pretty practical for a small homeserver, have a couple of PCI-E slots to expand, can hold 2x HDD (if you count replacing 5,25 optical drive with a tray) or multiple SSD wherever they fit. Pretty happy with this build, day-to-day it draws about ~18-50W from the wall, depends on load.

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