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Hello, World! (lemmy.crimedad.work)

submitted 2 years ago by CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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First post from my new, self-hosted, personal instance. Feels good!

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[–] Osayidan@social.vmdk.ca 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you host the instance just for your own account to be under your control there's hardly any overhead. I'm running it in docker in a debian 12 VM with 1 GB ram, 1 virtual CPU and 50GB virtual disk. Haven't had any issues.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is valuable info. Is there a Docker image that's preconfigured for it or did you install on a LAMP image or other third way?

[–] dan@upvote.au 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There's a few Docker images, since it needs a database and some other services, and the best practice with Docker is one container per service. The documentation is here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html

I removed the Nginx server from the docker-compose.yml though. I already had an Nginx server running on the same server, so I just added the config to the existing server instead.

[–] maxgry@lemmy.iqecke.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I also installed my private server and setting everything up was quite easy :) I left nginx as is and just put everything behind my Caddy as reverse proxy

[–] dan@upvote.au 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've been meaning to try Caddy and Traefik. I've been using Nginx for so long and don't really have a reason to switch though.

For Lemmy, I didn't see a major advantage of running a reverse proxy behind another reverse proxy which is why I'm not running Lemmy's Nginx container.

[–] Osayidan@social.vmdk.ca 3 points 2 years ago

I went with docker but back then their documentation for it was trash and hardly worked. Had to trial and error it until it was functional. Hopefully they fixed that by now.