geomaMay 23

System Resource (RAM and CPU) usage for self hosting fediverse social platforms

https://lemmy.ml/post/47746527

System Resource (RAM and CPU) usage for self hosting fediverse social platforms - Lemmy

I want to host a fediverse instance but I need it to be light (limited system resources). Mastodon seems to be kinda heavy. GotoSocial is supposedly very light? (but limited on functionality?) is Pixelfed much heavier? Bonfire is built on elixir so should also be light? Akkoma? Pleroma? Also, I need it to be engaging to people migrating mostly from IG, so I do need some bells/whistles I guess thanks!

Show threadkiol

100 - 200 users is a lot, especially with public federation. I would go for Pleroma or similar fork for full Mastodon compatibility with lighter resources.

8gb minimum, but 16gb recommended for people actually using it. It’ll be $40 - 80 a month VPS.

May 26 at 3:19pmWeb
Show threadabeorchMay 26
@geoma @kiol That sounds like something that would be possible with #PAYG #Oraclecloud account - Most of the resources would come from allways free tier so you'd basically only end up paying for test intances and bits and pieces.
Show threadkiolMay 26
I would never do that if the goal is a private server people trust me to run. Good luck with it.
Show threadabeorchMay 26
@kiol Ah .. critically here I'm not talking about Oracle free accounts - its just VMs with Oracle - but they are low cost - really though it doesn't matter what provider you are using - they key is to have more instances (to provide backup and redudancy for each individual resource) - that could include onpremise low cost instances