Philip

Depends on the weather outside and the insulation in my apartment, since I don’t turn the heater on.

Probably around 10-15 C

1000 down and 100 up for ca 40 euro a month

For s3 iDrive e2 is cheaper. It costs 4$ per month, if you pay monthly and down to ca 3$, if you pay yearly.

The egress policy is mostly the same as backblaze. You get 3 times the storage you pay for. With backblaze you get 3 times the average amount of data you have stored.

Down for me as well

I really enjoy boost.

I selfhost PhotoPrism.

I use a folder sync app, to upload all my pictures from my phone to a directory on my server, which PhotoPrism imports from every 15 mins(Might be a bit more or less).

I have used it for a couple of years and it has worked fine for me.

Anyone is welcome to join my instance at endlesstalk.org. Its running on a pretty beefy server, so it can take a decent amount of users.

There are multiple frontends like lemmy.world and I have setup a seeder(lemmony), so the all feed should be pretty filled.

How powerful should my hardware be?

I think 512mb ram is probably a bit too low. There is a risk for the pc to crash at some point. I think 1 GB+ should be fine.

Which ports do I need opened to operate a lemmy instance for my personal use (i’m only going to be connecting from home)?

To avoid opening ports you can use Cloudflare tunnel as you mentioned.

Only other option is probably renting a cheap vps. Here is a cheap vps options for 2.5$

If you have the ability then self hosting is the best option

Otherwise I think instances with less users and content will be quicker, but then the all feed will probably be smaller.

I will also recommend my own instance endlesstalk.org. It is very small(10 users) and the server is located in Germany. Hopefully that is close to where you live, so the latency is low.

About 2 months, 62 comments, 17 post. The post are mostly server updates for my instance though.

Still a big improvement over reddit though, since I just lurked there. Think I have more comments now, than in all my 9 years on reddit.

Photoprism

I have a younger sister and we get along fine. We take a couple of vacations together with our father each year and also meet up once in a while, when it is possible.

After hosting my own instance with just me for ca. 2 weeks:

1.99Gi pictrs

5.21Gi postgres

The internal path, I’m persisting is /mnt, but I also use an older version of pictrs(0.3.1). Think the newer version uses a different path.

I also needed to add the following for the pictrs container to work correctly.

  securityContext:
    runAsUser: 991
    runAsGroup: 991
    fsGroup: 991

For container orchestration, which is mostly what k8s provides, then you could use docker swarm or nomad. You could use docker-compose with multiple replicas of the wanted container + a load balancer to divide the load.

In general I don’t think k8s/k3s is needed for hosting lemmy yet, but since I have a setup for k3s, it is easier for me to use it.

I have only 1 container of pictrs running(with no scaling) and are using longhorn for storage, so if the pictrs container switches node, then longhorn handles it for me.

You can definitely have high availibillity without kubernetes, but its easier(For me atleast) with kubernetes.

My instance has 2 users. The domain name is endlesstalk.org

I host it on a k3s cluster with 2 nodes.

I see it from endlesstalk.org

For me, the best site has been https://lemmyverse.net/communities