Heya, I’m trying out Lemmy and kinda like the idea of hosting a Lemmy instance just for me.

I was wondering:

  • What are the hardware/bandwidth requirements for a single user instance?
  • I know different instances can black list each other, but can they whitelist each other too? I don’t want to be automatically unable to see interact with certain instances.
  • Has anyone else done this and have thoughts to share?
  • What about doing the same for Mastodon?
    • Muddybulldog@mylemmy.winEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      My personal instance that is pulling in close to the top 500 communities. Over the past week I see about 4 million requests and 17GB data served.

      • sinokon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        That’s pretty small tbh did expect much more but I guess offloading content traffic to 3rd party does the most heavy lifting. Thanks for the insight!

    • linuxduck@nerdly.devEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Good question. Right now it just says 0… With my all but 2 users. The great thing about where I got my servers is you can choose one of two options 100mbps unlimited (which I use) or 1gps for the first 4tb and then throttled to 10mbps.

      So far I see very little impact