Just started self hosting this instance. Nothing on the docs mentioned anything about storage considerations.

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        im running 50 users right now, subbed to A LOT of communities, seeing db growth of about 100mb per day.

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            It’s all about how many communities your user(s) subscribe to since your instance basically acts as a mirror for those.

            My instance has been running for 23 days, and I am pretty much the only active local user:

            7.3G    pictrs
            5.3G    postgres
            

            edit: I may have a slight Reddit Lemmy problem

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              So if you’re the only user (let’s assume for ease) then, that represents all the updates (posts, comments, votes) from each community that you are subscribed to?

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                Yeah, and I purposely subscribe to (or sometimes have a dedicated “federation helper bot” account I run subscribe to) most of the most popular communities on the most popular instances so I can get a decent sampling of what’s going on in the fediverse on the “All” feed. So I assume my storage usage is maybe a bit higher than what an “average” single-user instance may be…

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      Now I wonder how viable it would be to support video hosting. The answer is almost certainly “God no!”

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    My instance dormi.zone has been running for around 3½ weeks now, has a 3-digit amount of users and hosts a community with little more than 1000 subscribers. Here’s how much storage it currently takes up:

    • 4.9 GiB pictrs
    • 6.2 GiB postgres

    In the default Ansible configuration, storage will mostly be accumulated by log files that are automatically generated by Docker and deleted whenever you restart the Docker containers.