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Do you have any advice, recommendations, and/or tips for someone wanting to host a public/non-personal Lemmy instance? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It could be costly in a few places, so choose your host wisely:

  • data ingress/egress
  • storage (block and DB)
  • load balancing (if you choose to go that route)

I know that R2 has no charge for ingress/egress.

The block and db costs are technically unbounded, and will never decrease by default.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

choose your host wisely

Do you have any particular recommendations for a host?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I'd look into Hetzner, their pricing is pretty fair and they have some nifty features.

Also check out Vultr, they have block storage and some interesting addons.

That's where I'd start, but I haven't needed to host anything like Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I can tell you it will be the most expensive on AWS or Azure. That's about all I could say without pricing stuff out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  • data ingress/egress
  • storage (block and DB)

Do you have any estimations on the relationship between user count and average data transfer rates, and the average rate of storage increase?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It would depend completely on how many users you let in and what kind of things they'll be doing. Some users are super heavy with uploading images, some users aren't.

I haven't read the docs in a long time, but perhaps you could restrict image uploading or something. Nothing you can do about unbounded DB growth without expiring content though.