I’m interested in possibly hosting my own Lemmy instance - just for my own account. I was thinking of hosting it on Raspberry Pi (possibly the 1GB Pi 4 B), but I couldn’t find much for definitive information on what the hardware requirements would be for such an instance to know if this is even possible. How much storage is required? Is the Pi 4 CPU powerful enough? How much memory?
Pi4 is powerful enough, barely. 1GB is too low, is there a 1GB Pi4? Thought it was 2GB min? Think recommendation is 4GB min, 8 better.
Storage is the real issue, it takes a lot a day, but it’s all based on unique communities subscribed on the server, so if you have 4 accounts all looking at the same 8 communities it’s the same as 1 guy looking at those 8 communities.
4GB/day for a lot of communities, obviously less for less.
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Pi4 is powerful enough, barely. 1GB is too low, is there a 1GB Pi4? Thought it was 2GB min? Think recommendation is 4GB min, 8 better.
Storage is the real issue, it takes a lot a day, but it’s all based on unique communities subscribed on the server, so if you have 4 accounts all looking at the same 8 communities it’s the same as 1 guy looking at those 8 communities.
4GB/day for a lot of communities, obviously less for less.
My lemmy instance is hosted on a 1GB vps with no problem. Even with a few other services on the same VPS.
https://lemmy.click/post/82237
I guess you can it’s just going to be tight, but could work with 1 user.
There was a 1GB model at launch. The Pi foundation discontinued it when they dropped the price of the 2GB model.