I have an Oracle Always Free VPS. 4 ARM Ampere A1 vCPUs, 24GB RAM, 200GB storage. Will this be a good fit as a server for a Lemmy instance? Are there any issues with hosting Lemmy on aarch64?

  • HTTP_404_NotFoundEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    Well, do just note- hosting an instance doesn’t directly help offset the load of this one-

    I had an extra server laying around, 32 cores, 64 threads, 256G of DDR-4, and figured I would host and instance to help offset some load, and support this movement. And- that is how https://lemmyworld.com/ was born.

    HOWEVER, as most of the communities were created on lemmy.world. most of the load will stay on lemmy.world. All of this hardware will only get leveraged if/when somebody decides to create a popular community on here.

    So, that being said, you can. But, be aware of how lemmy/mastadon/etc is setup.

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

      I’m aware, thanks

      Ended up creating an instance just for me, my main reasons were:

      • not scared of instance shutting down and me losing my data - if I do, that’s on me
      • can block federation to an entire instance if I really don’t like some people
      • cool username
      • I don’t really get lag - if other instances are overloaded they work slowly, mine will work fine. Content from the slow ones will be slow, but the homepage will be better
      • I can make myself a community and use it as a blog

      I probably forgot about something too…