What is it like to run lemmy?
What is it like to run lemmy?
We recently received a message from a concerned Rammy user regarding their instance not having an active admin team. We have made attempts to contact the Rammy admins, which other instance admins have tried as well, to determine their current status. Due to their admins being absent and their unmode...
A cool look at running a lemmy instance
Cool but also nightmarish... Definitely not for everyone.
Been pretty smooth for me, but I also only take friends and people I know personally so the risk of abuse and misuse it absolutely tiny.
In terms of setting it up, if you're familiar with web hosting and Docker, it pretty much just works. Fairly basic and simple in terms of the stack it runs: NGINX, a nodejs frontend, PostgreSQL database and a Rust backend. I've set up way worse, especially compared to some Java-based apps.
How much disk space are you using? Is it just data from anything posted in your instance or others as well?
About 10GB so far, about an even split between database and image storage.
Very cool read!