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For those self-hosting a lemmy instance, what hardware are you using? I am currently using a small Hetzner VPS. It has 2 vCPU, 2GB RAM and 40GB SSD storage. My instance is currently just in testing with me as the only user, but I plan to use it for close friends or family that may want to try this out, but might not want to sign up for a different instance. My CPU and RAM usage is great so far. My only concern is how large the storage will balloon to over time. I’ve been up for ~20 hours and it’s grown to 1.5G total volume since.

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[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 3 years ago

I'm running it on an LXC container that lives on a proxmox cluster.

2 vCPU at 2.6Ghz. 2GB of RAM (it's LXC so I can allocate more if needed...) and 40GB of SSD-backed CEPH storage. I actually just upped this to 150GB because I can see the velocity of data I'm storing for this. I have about 2 more TB of storage on the CEPH cluster before I need to order a few more SSDs.

I have terrible internet, but I do have a static address. And they're installing fiber in my neighborhood right now. So that will change soon too.

Based on what I've seen thus-far, I suspect I can handle about a hundred users on this without much issue.