I’m trying to better understand hosting a Lemmy Instance. Lurking discussions it seems like some people are hosting from the Cloud or VPS. My understanding is that it’s better to futureproof by running your own home server so that you have the data and the top most control of hardware, software etc. My understanding is that by hosting an instance via Cloud or VPS you are offloading the data / information to a 3rd party.

Are people actually running their own actual self-hosted servers from home? Do you have any recommended guides on running a Lemmy Instance?

  • MolochAlterEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    There’s about 3.5 TB to go out of an actual 18 in the server.

    I have another 2TB to install but it’s not in yet.

    I’m also transcoding a lot of my media library to x265 to save space.

    I don’t download for the sake of downloading, usually, and i delete stuff if I don’t see value in keeping it.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      What is a good transcoder? I haven’t ran my media through one. Is the space saving significant? Did you lose video quality?

      • MolochAlterEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        In order:

        FFMPEG, yes, no.

        I refer you to this comment for more info.

        I have seen a saving of 60-80% per file on lower resolutions like 720 or 1080, which makes the server time well worth it.

        A folder of 26 files totaling 61GB went down to 10.5, for example.