Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

  • jason@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    How is your RAM/storage usage? I’m interested in setting up my own instance (no communities, just a username that will always be here) but don’t want to upgrade my VPS again. I already had to do that spinning up a Mastodon server.

        • livingcoder@lemmy.austinwadeheller.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          So long as you can run Docker, I would think that you could setup an instance. You just need to make sure that the image you use for lemmy and lemmy-ui are compatible with your platform. I had to alter the provided docker-compose.yml file to use arm64 versions for my RaspberryPi.

          I mentioned the total disk usage for the sake of setting up a pi. I don’t know what the space requirements are for lemmy separate from the bulkiness of an Ubuntu 22.04 install.