I’ve been considering the idea of hosting my own instance of Lemmy, solely for my own use, maybe with 1 or 2 family members using it as well. I’ve seen several discussions regarding the requirements for system resources, but not much regarding bandwidth. I have an abundance of processing power, memory, and storage space in my homelab, but my internet connection is terrible. Not much available where I live. I have a 40/3 VDSL connection and a Starlink connection, but neither is particularly good in terms of upload.

Seems like a VPS would be a good solution, but to me, that kind of defeats the purpose of self-hosting. I want to use my own hardware.

So, for a personal-use Lemmy instance, what kind of bandwidth is recommended? I know my connection would be fine for 1 or 2 users, but I’ll admit I’m not entirely sure how servers sync with each other in a federated network, and I could see that using a ton of bandwidth.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Image hosting will be likely the main issue. But you can severely limit the upload size to prevent yourself from accidentally sharing a too large picture.

    • terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.liEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, you could also set up some sort of caching proxy in the cloud just for images and host those on a different domain (e.g cdn.lemmyinstance.com) if you want to host large images still and be as self-hosted as is possible given the constraints.