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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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Nice work dad. How difficult was it? Iβve been thinking about going down that road but concerned about the overhead.
If you host the instance just for your own account to be under your control there's hardly any overhead. I'm running it in docker in a debian 12 VM with 1 GB ram, 1 virtual CPU and 50GB virtual disk. Haven't had any issues.
This is valuable info. Is there a Docker image that's preconfigured for it or did you install on a LAMP image or other third way?
There's a few Docker images, since it needs a database and some other services, and the best practice with Docker is one container per service. The documentation is here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html
I removed the Nginx server from the docker-compose.yml though. I already had an Nginx server running on the same server, so I just added the config to the existing server instead.
I also installed my private server and setting everything up was quite easy :) I left nginx as is and just put everything behind my Caddy as reverse proxy
I've been meaning to try Caddy and Traefik. I've been using Nginx for so long and don't really have a reason to switch though.
For Lemmy, I didn't see a major advantage of running a reverse proxy behind another reverse proxy which is why I'm not running Lemmy's Nginx container.
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If you do end up going for it, Lemmy Easy Deploy is the tool I used and itβs awesome. I had no success with any other guide.
It was pretty easy with that tool. The overhead isnβt too bad but I recommend not going below 2GB of memory. I rode along on 1GB for a little while to see how things went, and it topped out quite a bit. I pay a little extra for automatic backups too which is worth the peace of mind. Itβs about ~$18/month with Digital Ocean.
Damn. I paid racknerds $25/yr for 2cpu and 2.5gb of RAM. Runs great, and rather lean to be honest.
Wow, killer price! I need to check that out. Iβve had my Digital Ocean account for so long Iβm on autopilot lmao.
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I found this website to be pretty helpful in terms of walking you through a docker- based install:
The official docs are a little sparse at times.
Well, I couldn't figure out Docker because I'm a newb, so I decided to give the app in Yunohost a try. I was reluctant at first, because when I last checked the available version of Lemmy was kind of old and image uploads were broken. However, when I checked today, the version was 0.18.2 and the disclaimer about the broken feature was gone. So, I gave it a try and it just worked. I do still have to test image uploads.
We'll see about overhead. I've got it running on a VM to which I've allocated 500GB. The VM is on an older i5 desktop with 16GB of RAM. I've already been running a Pixelfed instance for a couple of weeks and so far so good.
That should be plenty of power and storage. Iβm running on a Digital Ocean droplet that has 2GB of memory, 25GB disk space, and an Intel vCPU (the βpremiumβ option). Hums right along.
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The secret ingredient was crime
Was?
It usually is.
Welcome to the club! I used the same easy deploy setup as you! Makes life really easy eh :)
Furthermore, to populate All, I have this one running: https://github.com/lflare/lemmy-subscriber-bot
If you do this, you will need some extra space because the database will grow, but I think it solves one of the (largest) downsides of running your own instance, namely discovering other communities.
Thank you; bookmarked.
When you decide to set it up, you need to create a user on your instance and fill in those details in the command line to run the thing. Also make sure to change the instance name to your name, otherwise it will not work.
Other useful commands:
docker rm --force lemmy-subscriber-bot To actually destroy the docker container if you want to start over
docker logs lemmy-subscriber-bot To see if the thing is running and doing things.
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Do you know how much disk space this will roughly use? Are we talking 10GB or 100GB or 1TB? Just roughly speaking.
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Nice! Just me on my instance too. The only downside I've found so far is that I have to discover new communities in my own since there is no one else to populate "All".
Small price to pay to have control over my instance though.
this is just a quick script I came up with, but it will show you newest communities and their descriptions. It refreshes daily. maybe it will be helpful for discovering niche communities : https://lemmyfind.quex.cc/
I'm really thinking about spinning up my own instant. I joined lemmy.one a while ago and it dark at the moment. After reddit I'm not digging the lack of control... Do you have any recommendations for running your own instant?
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Welcome!
How hard was it to set up? I've been considering making my own personal instance for a while now but haven't fully properly looked into it
I am running Yunohost, which made it very easy. However, I suspect that uploading images might (still) be broken.
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I appreciate all of the weird instance names in here
Hehe I needed a login for a Superbowl pool with my kid's preschool and that's what I came up with. When my wife saw she couldn't stop laughing, so it stuck.
Same.
Welcome aboard, and hello from across the Fediverse!
Been on my own instance all month and itβs been smooth sailing for me!
hi, please ignore this comment i am testing my lemmy instance.
I will not ignore your comment, take that! Lol
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Good on you for standing up your own instance. It's certainly nothing to shake a stick at and you're coming in at the right time when Lemmy just got a big performance boost in v0.18.3 as well as an 80% reduction size in the PostgreSQL database. Good things are happening.
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I still need to look into self-hosting Lemmy some time, but alas, it takes time lol
I'm even more tempted now that lemmy.one, my main instance I was using, appears to be down with a database issue according to its API. Which of course means if they don't have working backups, it may actually just be gone forever, along with my post history there.
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Hello from another self-hosted instance! Having absolute control on what you see is very nice.
Hello from my self hosted kbin!
Also posting from my own instance! Lemmy verse letβs gooooo
ayyyyy!
Even better from the right one!
Hello from another personal instance :)
Hello self hosted person.
There are dozens of us!
printf "%s\n" "Hello, CrimeDad!"
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