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Lemmy/Piefed instance as Blog forum? (startrek.website)
submitted 4 months ago by nagaram@startrek.website to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have a Hugo blog I'm setting up to work on my own forgejo server flow instead of through Github Pages.

I hate how pictures work on Hugo so I was going to just host them on a separate thing and embed the images that way.

Now I'm over thinking it and considering to just run a Lemmy instance, post the markdown for the blog posts there along with the images. Then I have an image host and a place to let people complain about my shotty writing in one go.

Plus there's federation visibility as well.

So short questions

  1. This a good idea?

  2. Are there better options?

  3. is it easy enough to set up a single user Lemmy/Piefed instance?

  4. Lemmy or Piefed? Which is easier to host

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[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I basically do this with https://lemmy.mods4ever.com/

It's fine, I didn't really check out alternatives or real blog platforms though lol. It doesn't use many resources since it isn't subscribed to any remote communities. I can share resource usage numbers when I get home but it's really low, barely uses CPU, the backup zip files are like 60MB

edit: cpu is like below 1%, ram is maybe like 500MB used total? and the backup zip file is 55MB

edit 2: docker stats

NAME CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O
lemmy_proxy_1 0.00% 9.078MiB / 7.57GiB 0.12% 2.42GB / 1.16GB 532kB / 12.3kB
lemmy_lemmy-ui_1 0.00% 157.6MiB / 7.57GiB 2.03% 957MB / 1.94GB 26.2MB / 0B
lemmy_lemmy_1 0.06% 193.2MiB / 7.57GiB 2.49% 7.36GB / 2.86GB 5.26MB / 0B
lemmy_postfix_1 0.00% 6.129MiB / 7.57GiB 0.08% 80kB / 126B 1.87MB / 77.8kB
lemmy_postgres_1 0.02% 578.9MiB / 1.465GiB 38.59% 1.57GB / 6.9GB 98.8MB / 992MB
lemmy_pictrs_1 0.18% 31.53MiB / 690MiB 4.57% 2.73MB / 178MB 61.2MB / 1.5GB