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Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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[–] Korgen@lemmy.korgen.xyz 60 points 1 year ago (22 children)

I run my own instance, the benefit is privacy and reliability. Everything is controlled on your own server. You also aren’t reliant on someone else running an instance that could go down at any time, either permanently or an outage. Been a problem with Lemmy.ml recently.

[–] jason@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (11 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.

[–] rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.io 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

[–] Jamoke@lemmy.themainframe.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The pictures folder on my instance is at 1.3GB after two days. It's just me and my friend. About how many communities are you subscribed to?

[–] rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.io 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. Some of those are lemmy.ml and not a lot of comments, etc have synced yet.
[–] Jamoke@lemmy.themainframe.org 2 points 1 year ago

Gotcha, thanks. I'm at about 70 so that makes sense then.

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