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?
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?
Depends. I’m subscribed to about 80 communities on various servers and my server is receiving about one federation post every second. The database has grown to about 2GB in size over the past two weeks for 1,977,387 registered activities. I’m guessing traffic will be similar.
Lemmy will clean up posts older than six months. You can probably write a quick and dirty script to purge content better (i.e. purge all but the most recent oldest 100k posts from each server) and run that every night or so.
RAM requirements are about 300MiB for Lemmy, and whatever you pick for Postgres. User post storage depends on what your users upload. CPU usage is rather minimal.
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.