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?

  • worfamerryman@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I would love to hear the answer to this as well. I guess it’s heavily dependent on how many users you have and if they are uploading images or just text, or just lurking.

    I think if you did not allow signups it would probably be extremely minimal.

  • panopticchaos@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

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

    https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/administration.html 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.