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If you want to host and manage your own Lemmy instance but are intimidated by the technical requirements, I can help! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am a software developer by craft and a linux system admin by hobby. I cannot commit to moderating and managing my own instance, but I would be glad to help someone with the technical aspects.

The most common complaint I saw in Reddit and here about switching to Lemmy is the difficulty of setting it up, so I thought I would help bridge this gap.

While I have never hosted my own instance before, I already checked the setup guide and it looks pretty simple to me, so I am confident I can do it. Please feel free to comment or DM.

It would be great if you can comment general questions. I can then respond to you here and maybe others will see it and know how to host their own instances too.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do you think it would be possible to host using a raspberry pi 4?

How much traffic does Lemmy create daily?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

CPU requirements for Lemmy hosting are minimal. Memory is useful - you'd want to use the Pi 4 with either the 4GB or 8GB RAM, anything less than that will work but you'll be running the risk of difficulties if the server gets busy.

You'll also need plenty of storage, especially if people are going to start uploading media to your Lemmy host. Given that a Pi runs off an SD card you might well find yourself running out of storage space - I'd recommend attaching a USB storage device for the reassurance in that respect.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I think for a small number of users, yes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I run lemmy.studio on a VPS with 1GB of ram and 1 VCPU, so a raspi4 should suffice, at least initially. Bandwidth is around 7.5 Mbps.