Thought I’d share some stray statistics now that we’ve been up for a month, in case anyone is curious what resource utilization on Lemmy looks like for our small instance.

We have 10 registered users who are mostly using our instance as a personal front-end/aggregator vs. creating local content. This means we’re pulling a fair amount of content from other instances, but I’m sure we’re not seeing anything close to the extent of the Fediverse.

The Postgres database has gotten large enough that I’ve had to bump up the storage on the server from 20GB to 30GB to maintain a comfortable amount of breathing room. Lemmy uses a laughably small amount of resources relative to Matrix (Synapse), and maintaining its database has been a walk in the park by comparison. There’s no significant contention for CPU or RAM and it’s hard to imagine what it would take for that to start happening.

That storage figure doesn’t include storage used by pict-rs, the integrated image host. We’re currently up to 8GB of images, both uploaded locally and pulled over from other instances. That sits on cheaper HDD-based storage so that I can afford to scale into the TBs if necessary someday. The OS and database are on much faster and more expensive NVMe storage.

There are some points of comparison from other instances on this thread at lemmy.world, if anyone’s interested: https://lemmy.4d2.org/post/66297