Just started self hosting this instance. Nothing on the docs mentioned anything about storage considerations.

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Considering this is going to be around a 5 user instance at most I think I’ll be good for awhile. Thanks!

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im running 50 users right now, subbed to A LOT of communities, seeing db growth of about 100mb per day.

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That seems high when you extrapolate that to 10000 users, like a larger instance might have.

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It’s all about how many communities your user(s) subscribe to since your instance basically acts as a mirror for those.

My instance has been running for 23 days, and I am pretty much the only active local user:

7.3G    pictrs
5.3G    postgres

edit: I may have a slight Reddit Lemmy problem

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It won’t scale linearly. A lot of those users will be subscribed to subs the instance is already replicating. It would only be new subs that would add to the growth.

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Question if you know: does a lemmy instance have to be publically accessable to work? Like, if I make an instance on my homelab can the instance “fetch” content and serve it faster locally? Could I reply to a post and have others see it? Etc

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wondering this also! wouldnt it require a domain for your account though?

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