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

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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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[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I would love to hear the answer to this as well. I guess it’s heavily dependent on how many users you have and if they are uploading images or just text, or just lurking.

I think if you did not allow signups it would probably be extremely minimal.

[–] panopticchaos@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] noisytoot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

That page says 150 MB (0.15 GB), not 150 GB (150,000 MB) of RAM.