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[Question] Disk Space for Lemmy and Mastodon instances (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Solvena@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi, I'm new with self-hosting but managed to set up my own Lemmy and Mastodon instances on a VPS recently. However, I ran into an issue with disk space quite rapidly (which I had way too few, because I started with the cheapest, smallest package for my VPS).

Now I prepare a new setup, where I'll be able to dynamically scale disk space as needed, but this can get expensive quickly. Therefor my question: How much disk space do I typically need for private (1-3 user) instances of Lemmy and Mastodon? Are there settings, where I can limit the disk space utilization (at the cost of older stored content being overwritten)?

I would be fine with needing up to like 30-40 GB, but any more than that would be getting kinda expensive ....

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[-] ruud@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Do you need Mastodon, or can it be something similar? Mastodon does a lot of caching. For my single-user instance I run Akkoma, which is very leight-weight and has all (even more) features Mastodon has.

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

By the way this is Media disk usage for my Mastodon instance, but it's not really small ;-)

[-] void_wanderer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

So, how much do you spend, why are you doing it, and do you get any funding or paying this or of your pocket? (just trying to understand how the fediverse works)

[-] seang96@spgrn.com 2 points 1 year ago

If this helps storage is cheap. See this for deals on high capacity drives https://shucks.top/

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