2y ago

How many users could you host on a self hosted lemmy instance?

Upload of around 40mbps

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These are current graphs for lemmy.world (yet to add it to my Zabbix)
Diskspace:

du -sm * 960 pictrs 1273 postgres
- I see you're using Hetzner. Those graphs don't really show what kind of CPU you're using. It's a 2 core i guess?
  
  It was an 8 core. But the current server is a 32-core / 64 thread cpu.
- Oh wow! 2GB already seems like a lot, especially since it looks like this instance has only been running for 10 days?
- Dang dude, youre the man
- Do you have any data redundancy? Like that if a hard drive dies? Or worse a hurricane takes out your whole server? What would happen to my newly created account?
  
  It's on a VPS so any redundancy they use for storage, plus I make backups to a storagebox in a different datacenter
I think it depends heavily on how much storage you're allocating, if you allow uploading media that is. From what I've understood most of the bottlenecks are in DB operations so CPU and memory definately play a role.
- Good point. I forgot about media.
  I wonder if I made a LAN lemmy instance if I could use it as a lemmy cache server.
  
  Is there a such thing as a cache only server? If so I'd love to sign up as being a cache bitch and help out!
At least 2.8k :-)
- What is the plan to make communities between instances easily accessible? I feel like with mastodon and now lemmy that is the part that concerns me, namely community reach/discoverability
  
  External communities are just searchable, subscribable and browsable from here. Sometimes you need to change a search filter or default view from Local to All. Or is there something else you feel is missing? I think 90% of the issues people are having are UX related and not a core issue with federation or decentralization.

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