How much space is currently used by Lemmy.ml database? I’m thinking of hosting my own instance and wondering what parameters are needed.
Without checking, its probably under, 100 MB. The main thing that matters for disk usage are image uploads, which can take a lot of space over time.
Is it possible to serve the images from a separate server?
Thats definitely possible.
Just checked, An uncompressed SQL backup of the text is at ~550 MB. But yes text is not going to be a problem for many years, just pictures.
A suggestion, I would suggest limiting image uploads to 5 MB. Even the utmost largest images can be easily compressed to under that, and be readable and without much artifacts.
edit: I just responded to this comment but now I noticed this is 3 years old lol how did this post show up on Hot? integer underflow?
seems to be happening on programming.dev but not lemmy.ml maybe before programming.dev only has it at 1 score instead of 12?
https://programming.dev/c/[email protected]?dataType=Post&sort=Hot
