Running a Lemmy instance

3 years ago by Wen Astar to c/asklemmy

I wonder what the stats on running a lemmy instance are.

How much time needs to be invested, how much data storage is needed, what kind of traffic volume is to be expected?

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panopticchaos 2 points 3 years ago

Honestly, I'm interested in knowing some of this too.

https://join-lemmy.org/... says about 150GB RAM and negligible CPU usage.

I assume an instance with users subscribed to active communities requires meaningful storage, but I'm not clear the sizes we're talking about (what's data growth per/day been like for some of the larger communities).

EDIT: Likewise, I'd love to know if that 150GB RAM is fixed or whether that number grows with use.

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noisytoot 5 points 3 years ago

That page says 150 MB (0.15 GB), not 150 GB (150,000 MB) of RAM.

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