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 threadCrinkly4516
Could you give us some insight into how much bandwidth up/down your instance is using? Thanks for posting your server specs. I'm tempted to self host an instance when I finally get a gigabit connection in the next few months.
Jun 20, 2023 at 8:28amWeb
Show threadRuudJun 20, 2023

Just installed Zabbix agent, so data just coming in. Bandwidth usage for Lemmy.world server

Show threadchiisanaJun 20, 2023
There's some talks about out-wards federation issues in which messages on big instances such as lemmy.world aren't federating outwards. Do you mind sharing the CPU and memory data from Zabbix? Also, do you have NTP configured on the server? I've seen a couple people, myself also included, seen "Header is expired" messages in our logs during federation, implying something is backed up or timing is off. I'm curious if the issues are server performance related, or time related, or something else all together.
Show threadRuudJun 20, 2023

Server is performing nicely. NTP (timesyncd) is running. I have no idea how to see federation queues. Please contact me on matrix @ruud:h-y-p-e-r.space if you want to troubleshoot together.

Show threadchiisanaJun 20, 2023
I'm brand new to the fediverse; tried to message you via Matrix using Element -- @chiisana:matrix.org -- not sure if I did it correctly or tried to invite you to a room on the Lemmy space. Hope we can some how connect :)
Show threadchiisanaJun 20, 2023
testy mctest message
Show threadliaraJun 21, 2023

Not sure about seeing queue stats directly but the logs should be pretty noisy if there aren't enough federation workers to process the queue efficiently.

There was info from the devs here: https://lemmy.ml/post/1216911

E: I see you already commented there, so you already know. It seems the value was raised to 160k by the lemmy.ml instance though

Show threadRuudJun 21, 2023
Thanks for notifying. I raised it to 200k now.