What exactly is the cost of self hosting a Lemmy instance? Understandably you would want a powerful server, but that would be just a single one time purchase.
Where does the rest of the cost come in? Does it require more than a 2 gigabit connection and thus require a data centers 10 gigabit connection?
If I could run an instance on 2 gigabits and spending a 1-3 thousand on a server then I’d be interested in giving it a try.
zramand other compressed swap approaches can help too (with less of a performance hit) although I use real swap as a fallback. Some would recommend usingzswapin that case, but I still want compression in ram to be heavily prioritised but YMMV.