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Which to host for a single user instance: lemmy or kbin (or others)? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by cyclohexane@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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what is better for single user instance, or maybe something small like under 10 users (no communities)? which is lighter on resources? how much storage should I allocate?

any alternatives to lemmy and kbin that are still somewhat similar?

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[–] Rain@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

While I quite enjoy the Interface of KBin over Lemmy. It seems Lemmy uses a lot less resources based on the "Admin Guides" for each service.

Lemmy: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/administration.html

KBin: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/wiki#user-content-admin-guide

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My Lemmy instance is currently occupying about 350MB of RAM, but you can round that up to 400MB. A lot less than the 4GB for KBin.Technically it's a dual user instance now, since a friend wanted to join it and I said sure.

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn, this is so much worse than good ol' RSS for just following up stuff (which I imagine is the main argument to be made for a single-usee instance)

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The arguments for are varied. I don't have to worry about any admins making decisions on federation, I can federate (or not) however I please. I have my own space that I can do what I want with in a familiar format, and I can make my username Jamie without it being taken.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

Yep, making federation decisions myself is why I want to spin up my own instance at some point, and I have spare computing resources as is already lol

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info! what about storage capacity usage?

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 1 points 2 years ago

After almost 24 hours, coming up on 662MB of images, and 371MB for the postegres database. Though, I could see the numbers fluctuating depending on how much stuff you're subscribed to. I'm currently subscribed to 31 communities, most of them fairly large.