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Downsides of self hosting fediverse from homelab / locally? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am wanting to self host a fediverse instance. I don't hope to make it big. Hoping for 200 users at most, and I won't advertise it heavily so it'll probably be a while before it gets there.

Is it a bad idea to host something like this on local hardware at home? I have a lot of local-only self hosted services, and I wouldn't want those to be compromised.

But my biggest fear is overloading my network. I already don't get the fastest signal in some parts of my house, and I am worried the extra traffic might put more pressure on the network.

What are your thoughts on hosting local? Should I just avoid the headache and host on public instance?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You may want to also look at offloading media with pict-rs to a object storage like an S3 API compliant bucket. Otherwise, you'll find Lemmy soaks up lots of storage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cloudflare R2 is the cheapest here, it's free for some gigabytes and egress is free too.

To be honest, I'd just disable image uploads...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

R2 is $0.015/GB, B2 is $0.005/GB and it also has free egress when put behind cloudflare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's part of my concern behind going with local setup. I have a lot of unused HDD storage.