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First post from my new, self-hosted, personal instance. Feels good!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, I couldn't figure out Docker because I'm a newb, so I decided to give the app in Yunohost a try. I was reluctant at first, because when I last checked the available version of Lemmy was kind of old and image uploads were broken. However, when I checked today, the version was 0.18.2 and the disclaimer about the broken feature was gone. So, I gave it a try and it just worked. I do still have to test image uploads.

We'll see about overhead. I've got it running on a VM to which I've allocated 500GB. The VM is on an older i5 desktop with 16GB of RAM. I've already been running a Pixelfed instance for a couple of weeks and so far so good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That should be plenty of power and storage. I’m running on a Digital Ocean droplet that has 2GB of memory, 25GB disk space, and an Intel vCPU (the “premium” option). Hums right along.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I’m happy with it lol. It’s kinda funny knowing that I paid for the domain enjoying.yachts. I’m glad it was at least cheap!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh good! That is reassuring.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Great to know, I'm on yunohost and considered creating my own instance. I guess I'll get to that when I take the step from rented VPS to home-run server.