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Minimum system requirements for lemmy instance (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by heimchen@discuss.tchncs.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I would like to host a small instance for me and my friends (<10). I was thinking about buying a small single board arm computer to host it. What would be the minimum system requirements for this and do you have recommendations besides the raspberry pi.

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[–] HReflex@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

Idk what the minimum requirements are, but If you have any issue getting your hands a raspberry pi, ZimaBoards seem to be cool

Here's the review of where I found them

[–] Generator 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Saw in some post, CPU/RAM isn't an issue for a small instance, only store if there's a lot of images posted, but only if posted on that instance.
Maybe database could be an issue, if there's many posts

EDIT: Check this post comments https://lemmy.ml/post/1188427

[–] heartlessevil@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

A pi could definitely host it, but you will need a USB storage drive, don't put the database or uploaded files on the SD card. Networking might also be an issue; I believe that pis have their wifi and ethernet running over USB and that might create a bottleneck.