Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Thank you so much for all that you do for this instance, and by extension the Fediverse at large! We all really appreciate you :)
Disk space utilization is represented as a graph of percentage - if you don’t mind sharing, what is the actual storage footprint of this instance at this point in time? If applicable, how much of that is content native to Lemmy.zip versus cached content from other federated instances?
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
The actual lemmy database sits around 110GB at the moment. And that’s with almost 3 years of posts/comments from all over the fediverse, so I think that’s a reasonable storage amount.
I don’t know of a way of seperating out local vs federated in terms of content to be able to check it’s size, it’s all held in the same table(s) with a local flag if local. There is probably a way, I’d need someone smarter than me to work it out though.
Our biggest risk to storage at one point was prometheus and keeping hold of massive amounts of log files so that we could work out when and where we were being attacked from. By implementing a full challenge in cloudflare, we’ve been able to stop that which is why that graph comes down a bit.
The biggest storage issue is images, which is 2.1TB at the moment. There is a way to clear this up a bit with some software, but it’s apparently got risk, so low down the priority list at the moment as object storage is cheap and doesn’t affect the server directly.
nutomic@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Do you have image caching enabled? Then storage grows much slower.