Does anyone run their own Lemmy instance on a pi? How was the process of setting it up? Were there any pitfalls? How is performance?

    • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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      1 year ago

      Basically the limit would be the speed of the database and the drive it runs on. If you connect a SATA SSD via usb3 it shouldn’t be too bad. Can’t tell you exact figures but a few hundred users is probably ok if you don’t expect the site to be super responsive.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks. Might be useful for there to be a table outling diffrent hardware configs and acceptable user loads as more people people consider creating instances.

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          its difficult because different users have different usage patterns.
          for example, two users who never post and are never online at the same time really take no resources from each other. they are effectively “one” user.

          one user who posts 10gb of content a day, and is constantly posting would be equivalent to hundreds of “normal” users.