June 12 - Server Capacity Update
I’m aware that some of you have been getting some errors loading this instance. This was a configuration that I needed to be adjusted which has since been. Do be patient if we run into other issues, I’ll be continuously working in the back-end with others to better your overall experience. Still a lot of capacity available!
Just out of curiosity, would it help if when posting images we use services such as imgur (or alternatives)? I’m assuming if there is storage issues those type of posts are the biggest culprit.
Thank you for hosting this server @TheDude :)
Would be cool if there was a plugin or something to link with imgur, etc.
Have you considered disabling image upload?
As someone who is still hostimg a forum, I would not suggest this. I have also tried to reuce footprint of the forum using external hodting services and this has always ended up badly.
This is one of the reasons why I'm not tempted to open up a lemmy server, even though my hosting plan allows 3 subdomains. Used space will rise quickly, even if it's just images... if videos are allowed as well, than all hell will break loose, even if they are prodessed and reduced in quality and resolution server side. I've seen it happen before, it's a nightmare to revert things afterwards (users complain), not to mention you can't rever the damage, that space is gone and that's that.
My estimate is that, if only images are allowed and images are processed in webp, it'll take about a week for a quite busy instance to reach the 1GB mark... probably a lit faster if it's an NSFW instance (probably a few days).
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