Just started self hosting this instance. Nothing on the docs mentioned anything about storage considerations.

  • key@lemmy.keychat.org
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    1 year ago

    Depends. If you have a lot of users posting a lot of pictures and you use pictrs out of the box config, then a lot. If you are just running a few users with finite communities being synced then a lot less. The number is going to vary a lot as lemmy grows and gets older so hard to document realistic expectations. But docker images are probably going to take up more disk space than actual contents unless you get quite big. I just threw my PG volume into a tgz to move servers and it’s less than a gig.

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      1 year ago

      The lemmy.world admin said above that their instance currently takes up less than 100GB

      Though this will accrue over time I suppose.

      But for self hosting? You should be good for a long long time. The only pictures stored are the ones you upload, the rest is just text.