Should I host a Lemmy instance on an Oracle Always Free VPS?

3 years ago by neoney to c/selfhosted

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?

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saint 10 points 3 years ago

it works fine, depending on popularity of your instance - you might have to add more resources in the future.

as for aarch64 - there are docker images available for lemmy and lemmy-ui

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neoney 3 points 3 years ago

Thanks, I’ll hope to not use docker though - planning to run NixOS, which has a module for it.

Just double checked, the nixpkgs for lemmy-ui and lemmy-server have aarch64-linux support B)

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saint 3 points 3 years ago

i have not used NixOS yet, not sure how easy to setup it on Oracle OCI, but i guess you will do fine ;)

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Midas 2 points 3 years ago

as for aarch64 - there are docker images available for lemmy and lemmy-ui

Oh seriously? That kinda stopped me from hosting my own. Got a link?

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saint 3 points 3 years ago path: 0 122622 123274 123314, hotness: undefined, score: 3, children: 2
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