I’m interested in possibly hosting my own Lemmy instance - just for my own account. I was thinking of hosting it on Raspberry Pi (possibly the 1GB Pi 4 B), but I couldn’t find much for definitive information on what the hardware requirements would be for such an instance to know if this is even possible. How much storage is required? Is the Pi 4 CPU powerful enough? How much memory?

  • @KalciferOPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    It would put the more popular instances under enormous stress, if they had to serve every single subscriber from any other instance.

    From what I understand, media (images, videos, etc.) is not cached. Does that not mean that, in the worst case where every post contained an image, the instance would be serving every subscriber, anyways?

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 year ago

      For binary data that is correct, yes. But that is stuff an instance admin could choose to hide behind a CDN, as it’s easily optimized and cached.