I will rent a v-server today with those specs: 2 CPU cores, 4GB RAM, 80GB disk space
I think it’s enough to run normal websites and even a game server, but I have no experience with the Fediverse.
Is this enough to run a few fediverse instances, like Lemmy and Mastodon or even others?
How much resources does Lemmy need in particular?
Thank you for your help.
Lemmy doesn’t really need much resources. Sopuli is running on a Hetzner VPS with similar specs and it’s all fine. I remember someone even running an instance on a ROCK64! Can’t really say anything about running multiple Fediverse services on the same VPS though.
ok, if it runs on a rock, it might run on an average vserver. Thanks :)
That’s more than enough for when you’re just starting an instance. I’d even knock that down to 1 core 1 GB RAM, which is like $5 a month on a host like Linode or DigitalOcean. The reason Lemmy.ml is experiencing trouble is that it’s one of the largest instances, we didn’t have problems until recently. The great thing about a VPS is that you can upgrade whenever you want, so I’d recommend saving some money by getting the cheapest one until your instance starts getting a lot of users. Every VPS host I know of shows you the resource usage history, so you can monitor it once in a while and upgrade when one of the stats is getting close to 100%.
I think that should work fine, never seen Lemmy on a dedicated server go above 2GB RAM use, but mileage may vary I guess.
On the other hand, I know Lemmy can run on a raspberry pi.
I have to say that the Raspi4 is a very powerful machine and I might use it soon as my desktop. Because it can do everything, what you need, but use a fraction of the energy than other machines.
I try it out! :)
I have an instance running on a 1GB RAM server.
It’s just for feature development, but it runs smoothly.
Clearly more than whatever lemmy.ml is running
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