Over the next week or so I’m sure a lot of people are going to try spinning up Lemmy instances - I’ve certainly been looking at it.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a VPS provider / resource allocation?

From what I have read, it sounds like you’re going to want a host that focuses on storage / bandwidth (at least if you are allowing image upload), but maybe those of you already operating an instance have a different opinion?

  • Ruud@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    I run lemmy.world on a VPS at Hetzner. They are cheap and good. Storage: I now (after 11 days) have 2GB of images and 2GB of database.

    • kinther@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Are you planning on pruning the database and images at some point, or is there some way to force external image hosting e.g. imgur.com ? Using 40GB for the o/s and swap, and 100GB for the site, at current levels of usage (not factoring in increased usage if more leave reddit), you’re looking at about 275 days before running out of space.

      • Ruud@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        The 100Gb is on a volume which I can extend to 10TB, and then I can also add more volumes as I use LVM on linux. :-)

        • kinther@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          Right, that’s what I’m planning to do for a personal instance as well. I’m just curious whether there is any way to prune the database of content older than say, 1 year. We’re still early in the game for Lemmy adoption, so if usage picks up there must be some way to address it other than adding more disk space.

        • Kris@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Nothing against them at all. I’m looking for something cheaper for my usecase. I want to host an instance just for myself and a couple friends.

          • rowen_stipe@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Linode is a decently cheap service; I have a, currently small, Lemmy instance I’m running on 1 core, and 2gb of ram for 12$usd/month.

    • Crinkly4516@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Could you give us some insight into how much bandwidth up/down your instance is using? Thanks for posting your server specs. I’m tempted to self host an instance when I finally get a gigabit connection in the next few months.

      • Ruud@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Just installed Zabbix agent, so data just coming in. Bandwidth usage for Lemmy.world server

        • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.netEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          There’s some talks about out-wards federation issues in which messages on big instances such as lemmy.world aren’t federating outwards. Do you mind sharing the CPU and memory data from Zabbix? Also, do you have NTP configured on the server? I’ve seen a couple people, myself also included, seen “Header is expired” messages in our logs during federation, implying something is backed up or timing is off. I’m curious if the issues are server performance related, or time related, or something else all together.

          • Ruud@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            0·
            1 year ago

            Server is performing nicely. NTP (timesyncd) is running. I have no idea how to see federation queues. Please contact me on matrix @ruud:h-y-p-e-r.space if you want to troubleshoot together.

            • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.netEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I’m brand new to the fediverse; tried to message you via Matrix using Element – @chiisana:matrix.org – not sure if I did it correctly or tried to invite you to a room on the Lemmy space. Hope we can some how connect :)