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How quickly will a lemmy instance eat up storage? (seriously.iamincredibly.gay)
submitted 3 years ago by i_lost_my_bagel@seriously.iamincredibly.gay to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Just started self hosting this instance. Nothing on the docs mentioned anything about storage considerations.

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[–] ruud@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

This is lemmy.world after 4 weeks:

58G	pictrs
34G	postgres
[–] i_lost_my_bagel@seriously.iamincredibly.gay 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Considering this is going to be around a 5 user instance at most I think I'll be good for awhile. Thanks!

[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

im running 50 users right now, subbed to A LOT of communities, seeing db growth of about 100mb per day.

[–] Pleonasm@programming.dev 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

That seems high when you extrapolate that to 10000 users, like a larger instance might have.

[–] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

It's all about how many communities your user(s) subscribe to since your instance basically acts as a mirror for those.

My instance has been running for 23 days, and I am pretty much the only active local user:

7.3G    pictrs
5.3G    postgres

edit: I may have a slight ~~Reddit~~ Lemmy problem

[–] Pleonasm@programming.dev 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

So if you're the only user (let's assume for ease) then, that represents all the updates (posts, comments, votes) from each community that you are subscribed to?

[–] terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.li 0 points 3 years ago

Yeah, and I purposely subscribe to (or sometimes have a dedicated "federation helper bot" account I run subscribe to) most of the most popular communities on the most popular instances so I can get a decent sampling of what's going on in the fediverse on the "All" feed. So I assume my storage usage is maybe a bit higher than what an "average" single-user instance may be...

[–] jukes@lemmy.secondpartysoftware.com 1 points 2 years ago

That's not super terrible given the size of lemmy.world.

[–] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 1 points 3 years ago

My instance has 13 users, and has been up for 2 months now:

1.5G    ./pictrs
3.4G    ./postgres
[–] jukes@lemmy.secondpartysoftware.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It depends on how many communities you end up pulling in. Your instance will only sync with communities that a user on your instance is subscribed to.

[–] jukes@lemmy.secondpartysoftware.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've had my instance running for about 1 week and I'm the only user.

2.1G pictrs

2.5G postgres

[–] useful_idiot@lemmy.eatsleepcode.ca 1 points 3 years ago

476M ./postgres 1.1G ./pictrs

After 3 weeks

[–] A10@kerala.party 1 points 3 years ago

Is there any way to purge old data?

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