I wonder what the stats on running a lemmy instance are.
How much time needs to be invested, how much data storage is needed, what kind of traffic volume is to be expected?
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Wait, nothing lasts here on lemmy for more than 6 months!? I swear I’ve seen much older stuff here?
Pretty sure OP-comment misinterpreted the code. My best guess is that they’re simply pruning an index or something like that.
Honestly, I’m interested in knowing some of this too.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/administration.html says about 150GB RAM and negligible CPU usage.
I assume an instance with users subscribed to active communities requires meaningful storage, but I’m not clear the sizes we’re talking about (what’s data growth per/day been like for some of the larger communities).
EDIT: Likewise, I’d love to know if that 150GB RAM is fixed or whether that number grows with use.
I suspect that it depends on if you’re accepting other users and or communities. If so, you’ll have to be global mod and probably spend time sorting out mod reports etc.
If you’re just setting up an instance for yourself, it’s probably easier but you’ll need an account somewhere else to discover communities and index them back to your instance.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/4706 gives some info on the hardware sh.itjust.works is using.
Mines been running for a few days now and with some image heavy communities shortage is up to 1gb for 1 user. I have it on a separate volume that can be expanded if needed.
