Lemmy selfhost hints

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

Advice: make sure you deploy the latest version of Lemmy! The newest one solves a lot of federation/backend stuff (hint hint Lemmy.world).

[shimitar@feddit.it]

Thanks! I have a more powerful hardware than a pi, how is it about bandwidth?

I will have two, maybe three users.

[paequ2@lemmy.today]

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.

[shimitar@feddit.it]

Ok, indeed, will go with latest for sure, thanks

[shimitar@feddit.it]

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.

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

Not too much. I don't have specific stats but there's not much video being shared.

[evkob@lemmy.ca]

A lemmy instance hosted behind Tailscale would be unable to federate, no?

[paequ2@lemmy.today]

Yeah, you're right. Bad advice actually. Oops.

[johntash@eviltoast.org]

If you haven't seen it, headscale is an open source controller for tailscale clients. Assuming your allergies are related to using their public offering.

[shimitar@feddit.it]

I have heard of headscale, and agree that would fix my allergies.

But I don't have a use case for that either, so...

Maybe in the future, who knows.

[povoq@slrpnk.net]

You might be interested in our Podman quadlet scripts then: https://f-hub.org/Solarpunk/lemmy-podman

[shimitar@feddit.it]

Thank you! This is really interesting, will look into it.

[schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business]

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.