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Lemmy Instance on Small Private Server?
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I'm running my instance on 2 cores, 2GB of RAM. Of course I'm the only one on there at the moment, but it's running great, and I think it might even be fine with a single core.
As other have said, if you are planning to use it for your own "user's home instance," that should be fine. I've read a few people are running their instances on Raspberry PIs, which is pretty neat. While I have one I could, I opted to setup a new droplet in DigitalOcean (I also run my own servers like you). A 2 core / 2GB RAM / 50GB SSD disk droplet on DigitalOcean is about $18 (USD) a month, while a single core droplet is about $12 (USD) per month.
If you plan to run an instance for others to use, be aware the federation is going to be chatty on your home network, and could impact other devices on your network. Probably not ideal.
Any recommended guides? I consider myself pretty savvy with tech as a software engineer, but I’d really like some sort of docker image to just spin up on my unraid server. I’m pretty lazy playing the whole sys admin role…
I'm not familiar with unraid.
I used the documentation over on join-lemmy.org to setup my instance, on ubuntu. main docs: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/administration.html
Here are the docker specific instructions: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html
Thanks a bunch!