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!!
I’m running mine (ani.social) on 4 cores and 16gb RAM for 17 users as of now. There isn’t a lot of posts/comments coming from us yet but there’s a couple of images uploaded already.
The current load average is only 0.10, postgres db is at 1.6 GB and pictrs is only at 430 MB. The database has been growing a lot faster than expected though but it seems manageable.