CMahaffJun 11, 2023

Best Providers for hosting a Lemmy Instance?

https://lemmy.world/post/55124

Best Providers for hosting a Lemmy Instance? - Lemmy.world

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? 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?

Show threadRuudJun 11, 2023

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.

Show threadkintherJun 11, 2023
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.
Show threadRuud
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. :-)
Jun 11, 2023 at 4:57pmWeb
Show threadkintherJun 11, 2023
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.