I’m looking to host a lemmy instance for a small subreddit. I I am unsure if the load would be too much for my home network. In the last 30 days we got 1.7k comments, 96 posts, 95k views, with an average unique of 809.

My home internet connection is 100mb/s down, 20mb/s up. I use the network to work from home as well as general internet degeneracy when I’m off the clock. I have two roommates also using the network for personal stuff, but not working from home. Would this put too much load on my home network?

If it does, could anyone recommend a good web host service that is compatible with lemmy?

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    20mbit/s per second is not so much, but it should work. In general you have to differentiate between three things with Lemmy:

    1. Users on your own instance directly utilizing the client api (medium bandwidth heavy, medium CPU)
    2. Users from other instances indirectly accessing communities (low bandwidth, but potentially high CPU)
    3. Either of the above directly loading images from your instance (potentially very bandwidth heavy)

    For 1: you can limit the number of people you allow to sign up on your instance (highly recommended)

    For 2: this is depends on the number of subscribers and the number or external servers but overall is relatively efficient as the remote servers take most of the load, but your server will still have a high database load if remote people comment and post a lot.

    For 3: Until Lemmy implements a fully image proxy, this will likely be your main problem with only 20mbit/s upload. But you can severely limit the size of images being uploaded and convert them to smaller sized webp images automatically. But if a lot of people try to download simultaneously the same image from your instance, it’s going to be a problem.