Lemmy selfhost hints
Lemmy selfhost hints
Hi all!
I have decided to setup and selfhost my own private Lemmy instance.
I will be doing with docker (podman, actually).
Should I host at home or use a dedicated VPS?
Anybody selfhosting its own Lemmy?
Do you guys have any hints for me?
Advice: make sure you deploy the latest version of Lemmy! The newest one solves a lot of federation/backend stuff (hint hint Lemmy.world).
Ok, indeed, will go with latest for sure, thanks
You might be interested in our Podman quadlet scripts then: https://f-hub.org/Solarpunk/lemmy-podman
Thank you! This is really interesting, will look into it.
If you have less than 10 or so users, id say go ahead and self host. It's not terribly resource intensive at least not on my personal instance. I use it to test posts, solutions that will eventually make it's way into a pr, or just experiments and that can (and does) run on a pi.
Thanks! I have a more powerful hardware than a pi, how is it about bandwidth?
I will have two, maybe three users.
Very very little. It's a billion tiny little bits of text, and if you have image caching enabled, then all those thumbnails.
My personal instance doesn't cache images since I'm the only one using it (which means a cached image does nobody any good), and i use somewhere less than 20gb a month, though I don't have entirely specific numbers, just before-lemmy and after-lemmy aggregates.
Not too much. I don't have specific stats but there's not much video being shared. We are not at the level where it takes too much bandwidth.
Shortcut: use Tailscale to create your own private network and avoid hosting on the big, bad Internet. Otherwise, you really have to be careful on how you protect your services.
Minor downside (or upside) is that you'll have to install the Tailscale app on each device you want to make part of the network.
This made hosting at home a lot easier for me.
Update: Ah! I misread the post. Tailscale doesn't make sense for this use case. My bad! 😅
A lemmy instance hosted behind Tailscale would be unable to federate, no?
Yeah, you're right. Bad advice actually. Oops.
Thank you, I am allergic to tailscale (joking).
I already selfhost lots of stuff for family and friends using reverse proxy+https a public domain(s) and a VPS tunneled back (wireguard) home since I am behind CGNAT. And authelia on top of it all.
My setup should be safe enough also for a Lemmy instance.