Hi, I’m new with self-hosting but managed to set up my own Lemmy and Mastodon instances on a VPS recently. However, I ran into an issue with disk space quite rapidly (which I had way too few, because I started with the cheapest, smallest package for my VPS).

Now I prepare a new setup, where I’ll be able to dynamically scale disk space as needed, but this can get expensive quickly. Therefor my question: How much disk space do I typically need for private (1-3 user) instances of Lemmy and Mastodon? Are there settings, where I can limit the disk space utilization (at the cost of older stored content being overwritten)?

I would be fine with needing up to like 30-40 GB, but any more than that would be getting kinda expensive …

  • Akkerman
    2•1 year ago

    @Solvena Hey, I consider hosting the mastodon intance for myself also. How much diskspace usage did you observed?

    • @SolvenaOP
      2•1 year ago

      I had 10GB assigned for Lemmy and Mastodon (both single user instances) and the disk space filled up in a couple of days. I have implemented some of the tips given here now, so we will see.