Thanks! When you mention we were close to a full disk, what exactly do you mean? How much disk space and resources are used in an instance of this size?
We were down to about 4GB free on an 80GB VPS, but are now on a 160GB plan. Of the used space, about 50GB is the Lemmy and image databases, so they grow roughly 2.5GB each month.
wow, I that's a lot of growth. It's due to more users joining or something else, kinda the natural flow of things? For real how much my usage costs, makes me feel a little guilty lol.
also, do we have some mechanism to send old things that are not frequently accessed to some sort of cold storage? I image the live and actually used data is much less that the archive
Absolutely no need to feel guilty! The reality is that local users don't have a very big impact on database growth directly. It's just the nature of the federated model that means we need to store all received activity relating to all communities 'known' to this instance.
There is currently no mechanism in place to 'prune' old content from the database, but it has been considered. We may revisit the idea in the future.
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