Are there any gotchyas to running a Lemmy Instance? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by zombie_kong@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I stood up a Yunohost and installed Mastodon a few months back. I had issues with storage and exponential growth as a result of federating with other instances.

It was just too much work keeping the storage at a minimal level for a single user instance, so I ditched it.

Is there anything like that I need to consider before I try my hand at Lemmy?

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[-] hitagi@ani.social 1 points 1 year ago

Disk space is a bit of a concern since I started hosting this instance. The Lemmy database is 12.2GB and pictrs is 1.8GB after a little over a month. I set all images to convert to WEBP and scale down to save on disk space but the database is growing pretty fast. From my understanding, they already fixed this and we're just waiting for 0.18.3 to release.

[-] DarkUFO@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

If you gave up running a single user instance of Mastodon then I really don't think you should be running a Lemmy instance. It's a fediverse compliant system that will have many of the same issues as Mastodon.

I run a small 10 person Instance of Mastodon and it runs very well on a small server of 4GB Memory and 100GB disk. Not sure why you had issues with a 1 man instance.

Out of interest why would you want to run a 1 man Lemmy Instance?

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

I'm not alone.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20255

Compute was never an issue. I had my instance hosted on Hetzner and it ran just fine.

My concern is the storage, as described above, constantly checking disk space, cronjobs, purging etc etc

And whether I host a single user or a multi user instance is neither here or there. My question still stands.

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

I never had to check disk space, cron jobs or do any purging.

Where did you run you Mastodon Instance. I run mine at Digitial Ocean, been running for nearly a year and have not encountered any issues and I'm running on the cheapest server they have.

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