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Noob question: How much RAM does my VPS need if...
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2gb will be probably insufficient, mainly because of Matrix Synapse. If you avoid joining any large communities it might work, but if you are not doing that you might as well use a XMPP server which is better anyways.
A small Lemmy instance will take around 500-1000mb RAM so that will likely work but use a significant portion of your RAM.
Thanks for the info. I wasn't really able to find a clear answer elsewhere.
This is my droplet with 1GB of RAM only running lemmy:
So expect at least 1GB for lemmy with postgres included when you include spikes etc.