this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
127 points (99.2% liked)

Selfhosted

40183 readers
623 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

For those self-hosting a lemmy instance, what hardware are you using? I am currently using a small Hetzner VPS. It has 2 vCPU, 2GB RAM and 40GB SSD storage. My instance is currently just in testing with me as the only user, but I plan to use it for close friends or family that may want to try this out, but might not want to sign up for a different instance. My CPU and RAM usage is great so far. My only concern is how large the storage will balloon to over time. I’ve been up for ~20 hours and it’s grown to 1.5G total volume since.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

I'm running it on an LXC container that lives on a proxmox cluster.

2 vCPU at 2.6Ghz. 2GB of RAM (it's LXC so I can allocate more if needed...) and 40GB of SSD-backed CEPH storage. I actually just upped this to 150GB because I can see the velocity of data I'm storing for this. I have about 2 more TB of storage on the CEPH cluster before I need to order a few more SSDs.

I have terrible internet, but I do have a static address. And they're installing fiber in my neighborhood right now. So that will change soon too.

Based on what I've seen thus-far, I suspect I can handle about a hundred users on this without much issue.