Just curious how much it would cost to run an instance? Maybe with 1,000-10,000 users? Also are there any hosts that ya’ll recommend? I am most familiar with Digital Ocean but DO may not be the best area to host an instance.
Apologizes if this is the wrong community to post this in. I am not sure where to find any info on pricing estimates
The admin of sopuli.xyz said in his FAQ that donations are unnecessary atm, as his expenses total about 12 euros a month.
Sopuli has a bit under 2000 accounts, I think, and is running on a Hetzner VPS located in Finland.
I don’t have an answer but I’m also quite interested to find out what kind of server specs are we talking to get off the ground? Would love to hear from someone that has recently started their own…
I have no idea about minimum requirements to get off the ground, but lemmy.ml mods recently made this post: https://lemmy.ml/post/1234235 in wich they state they use a dedicated server with 6 cores/12 threads and 32 gb ram.
Yeah I think this is the best „benchmark „ we have. Seeing how active this instance is and hoe it still struggles to keep up despite the specs.
It seems these specs are barely enough to run an instance the size of lemmy.ml
One of the devs comments in that thread specifically notes the price. It’s 60 euros a month for the dedicated server this is running on. https://lemmy.ml/comment/577040
Server pricing isn’t linear though so smaller instances wouldn’t necessarily be proportionally smaller in price.
So 30€/month for the biggest instance basically. That’s cheap, nice.
Yeah I am curious about the storage requirements. I self-host a lot of things and I am kinda curious what it’d be like to self-host my private instance of Lemmy. Can I delete super old posts from cache to save disk space? How often does it pull in federated data? Does it do it on demand or periodically in the background? etc.
