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