Hi all, a shout-out for assistance. I’m considering hosting a Lemmy instance (assuming I can pass the wife test on costs) and I’m looking for some guidance on specs.

Can anyone who’s currently hosting an instance (or who knows the inner workings of one) please reply with:

  • specs on the hardware / VPS that’s hosting your instance
  • how many users / posts that’s supporting
  • what the system load looks like with the above
  • if locally hosting, the type of bandwidth requirements you’re seeing

I previously posted this in the wrong community, and one of the responses asked how many users I’m expecting. To preemptively answer - I don’t know. I’m just trying to get an idea of relative sizing.

Thank you!!

    • ChickenBooEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      I use nginx proxy manager to route all my services. Just forward 80 and 443 from my router to that.

      And I pay my ISP $5 a month for a public IP. I run a cronjob to update my dns if it changes. It runs every 30 minutes.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 year ago

      I’m using hestiacp to host some websites anyway, so i just added a new nginx template to create reverse proxy to lemmy+lemmy_ui containers

      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 year ago

        I really want to figure out if it’s possible to stick it behind cloudflare or something. I would rather not expose any IP address directly to the internet. I’m leaning on just setting up a reverse proxy on a cheap cloud instance back to my home.

        • @[email protected]English
          4•1 year ago

          My instance is actually behind cloudflare and it works fine, but remember that it would be possible to “expose” ip of your server due to federation, as your server will talk to other server (directly, that traffic won’t go over cloudflare), so if you are paranoid about that, i would recommend setting up a wireguard tunnel to cloud instance, and forwarding the traffic that way, or just setup the lemmy on that instance