Comment on Community discovery on self hosted Lemmy instances

• cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Keep in mind that you’re going to be retrieving and storing a huge amount of data running these scripts, and you should expect to need more than a $5 1gb of RAM vps to do it without it being a shitty broken experience for you.

  We’re talking dozens of gigabytes of storage for the database, plus effectively a need for an infinite amount of storage for the image caching, plus enough RAM and CPU resources to effectively process the whole Threadiverse.

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  • muddybulldog@mylemmy.win ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    True dat. I’ve been running it about seven weeks and am pulling about 700 communities. Most have near zero traffic but the high volume ones do add up.

    42G	/mnt/sp4dot1-data/appdata/mylemmy.win/
    12G	/mnt/sp4dot1-data/appdata/mylemmy.win/postgres
    30G	/mnt/sp4dot1-data/appdata/mylemmy.win/pictrs
    

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