For those self-hosting a lemmy instance, what hardware are you using? I am currently using a small Hetzner VPS. It has 2 vCPU, 2GB RAM and 40GB SSD storage. My instance is currently just in testing with me as the only user, but I plan to use it for close friends or family that may want to try this out, but might not want to sign up for a different instance. My CPU and RAM usage is great so far. My only concern is how large the storage will balloon to over time. I’ve been up for ~20 hours and it’s grown to 1.5G total volume since.

  • culturerevoltOPEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    I used the ansible method to get running and I am using the default paths. If you are also using the default paths, you can find your data in /srv/lemmy/<domain>/ . This location will hold your configuration files and your volumes directory. The volumes directory holds postgres (the database), pictrs (your image hosting) and lemmy-ui (the web-ui for lemmy). To see how much disk space you are using:

    cd /srv/lemmy/<domain>/

    du -hc --max-depth=1 volumes

    replace <domain> with your domain.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 years ago

      Thanks! Not so bad apparently.

      8.0K	volumes/lemmy-ui
271M	volumes/postgres
424M	volumes/pictrs