Hi all!

I have decided to setup and selfhost my own private Lemmy instance.

I will be doing with docker (podman, actually).

Should I host at home or use a dedicated VPS?

Anybody selfhosting its own Lemmy?

Do you guys have any hints for me?

  • paequ2@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Shortcut: use Tailscale to create your own private network and avoid hosting on the big, bad Internet. Otherwise, you really have to be careful on how you protect your services.

    Minor downside (or upside) is that you’ll have to install the Tailscale app on each device you want to make part of the network.

    This made hosting at home a lot easier for me.

    Update: Ah! I misread the post. Tailscale doesn’t make sense for this use case. My bad! 😅

  • mesa@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If you have less than 10 or so users, id say go ahead and self host. It’s not terribly resource intensive at least not on my personal instance. I use it to test posts, solutions that will eventually make it’s way into a pr, or just experiments and that can (and does) run on a pi.

    • Shimitar@feddit.itOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Thanks! I have a more powerful hardware than a pi, how is it about bandwidth?

      I will have two, maybe three users.

      • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Very very little. It’s a billion tiny little bits of text, and if you have image caching enabled, then all those thumbnails.

        My personal instance doesn’t cache images since I’m the only one using it (which means a cached image does nobody any good), and i use somewhere less than 20gb a month, though I don’t have entirely specific numbers, just before-lemmy and after-lemmy aggregates.