Asklemmy

43952 readers

676 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

Lemmy Instance on Small Private Server? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by CaptManiac@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'd like to contribute to the Lemmy community. I've been running my own private Linux servers for more than 25 years for things like email (years ago before all the spam), and as file servers, backup, etc. It's an old, not very powerful computer, running Ubuntu server, in a corner in my house. Is it worth running a Lemmy instance on such a machine? I suppose there'd also be issues of how much data is going in and out, and how that would impact my internet cable usage. Thoughts?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] ndr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you want to use it just for yourself (thus removing the load of your own usage from the other public instances), sure.

If you intend to open it up for many users, you need to consider whether you're capable of managing that kind of load. Lemmy is relatively lightweight though.

On my post here, you can find some informations about other people running an instance in the comments.

[–] CaptManiac@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Excellent post, thanks. It looks like one of the bigger issues is with images, since they're significantly larger than text. I wonder if it's possible to disable image uploads, and just require links.

[–] Dalinar 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't the federation syncing process use much more resources across the network than 1 user browsing sometimes?

[–] ndr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe I’m wrong, but you would be fetching the content from all the other instances. The other instances would only need to fetch your content if someone searches for the communities you created. So, if you mostly post and comment on existing communities, the other instances wouldn’t have to do any extra work.