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Disk space required for lemmy instance? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by devdad@programming.dev to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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With vlemmy disappearing, I’m considering spinning up a VM and sticking it in a DMZ for my own personal use (and any friends who wish to use Lemmy).

I believe there is caching involved, so does anybody have a good idea of how much disk space an instance for say ~10 users would require?

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[–] throwaway_OT05wZjv@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For micro/personal server runners, I built a tool to automatically discover and add communities to your local instance :)

https://github.com/lflare/lemmy-subscriber-bot

Just for context, subscribing to about ~800 communities, of which have about more than 50 users/month, my metrics have indicated a disk space usage of about 2GiB/day, 20% of a single CPU core, and about 8~10GiB/traffic a day.

Unfortunately, it seems that most of the disk space used is by a single database table used primarily for debugging, thus once that issue is fixed, the disk space usage should drop dramatically into maybe just a hundred MiB a day or less.

EDIT: For support requests, I've created https://lemmy.world/c/lsbsupport as well.

[–] devdad@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome, thanks! That's really helpful.