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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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[–] CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From the readme:

As of the writing of this tool, and size of the fediverse (Jul 2023), using this tool, may result in disk space usage of around 2GiB/day, according to my own metrics.

Seems kind of steep. I only have 500GB allocated to my server. I feel like there's got to be a better way.

[–] infamousbelgian@waste-of.space 2 points 2 years ago

I have the feeling that this is extremely exaggerated. I only have 40 Gb in total and still have 23 gb free. I don't run the tool constantly, but run it every once in a while to make sure that my All has interesting communities. If it would be 2 gb/day I would be loooooong over my 40...