cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/38848

If anyone here is running an instance on Lemmy, I’d like to know the system requirements recommended. I want to run an instance on a VPS, probably just as an account server.

What type of VPS can I get by on, for just accounts on an instance? How much storage space would I need to do just an “account instance”, and how much would I need for a full instance with maybe a few small communities?

  • pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.devEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I have a single user instance, 1vCPU 1GB ram, and lemmy itself is using around 300MB of disk.
    I’ve only had it for less than a week so maybe disk space will go up quite quickly.
    CPU never goes above 10% while I’m using it and ram stays around 600MB.
    The issue with disk are the logs, I solved it configuring docker to rotate files and just keep 4. Not sure how it could be done with the other installation instructions.

    AFAIK the bottleneck currently is CPU, with the upgrade of lemmy.ml to the 8vCPU they are at full usage but ram sits around 6GB.
    They’re working on optimizing some queries.

    • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Awesome hardware report. If my instance starts falling over too hard I’m definitely considering setting up my own and this is great info to help me size it properly… though my admins lived through the mastodon twitterpocalypse with 4k signups per hour so if anyone can keep the lights on through this madness I’d think they have the experience to do it.

      • Korgen@lemmy.korgen.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        See I would like to help out if I could and open up my instance since I’m sitting on a lot of unused hardware, but I’m just not really interested in moderating.

        • PriorProject@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          Nothing wrong with that, admin’ing an instance is a pretty serious job. I wonder how many instances will fold once they realize what they really signed up for. I lucked out in finding a new Lemmy instance from an experienced mastodon admin team so I have some faith that they’re not in for a rude awakening.