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[-] farcaller@fstab.sh 16 points 4 months ago

Looking at the resource usage of mine, a tiny cheap VPS for $4/mo would be enough, sans the image store. But it's not a hard requirement unless you expect to have lots of local communities posting pictures.

Lemmy's issue is that it's non-trivial to deploy and oftentimes painful to upgrade.

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

But it’s not a hard requirement unless you expect to have lots of local communities posting pictures.

Doesn't lemmy sync posts, comments, and pictures with other instances? I remember after a CP attack some instances manually turned it off in the code to avoid troubles, and also had to clear their storage.

[-] farcaller@fstab.sh 3 points 4 months ago

It absolutely does. Think of lemmy like of email – your mail server has all the email you received.

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

Looking at the resource usage of mine, a tiny cheap VPS for $4/mo would be enough

Not including the time cost to manage it.

[-] farcaller@fstab.sh 1 points 4 months ago

That's exactly my point, though.

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

I was trying to say that the hardware cost to host it may not be expensive, but the management cost could be quite costly.

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