I’m currently running this instance on a Digital Ocean VPS with 1 VCPU and 1GB of ram, just to get started. I’m keeping an eye on CPU and memory usage, so I can upgrade it as we grow.

Right now it looks like this:

Today I added a swap file, since we’re around 90% memory usage. But I expect to probably have to bump it to 2GB in the next coming days.

  • KNovaEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    I find that both Lemmy and my Akkoma instance hover around 80% RAM usage but never go above that. I’m on the same sized droplet as you and hoping to keep it that way, for now.

    • BetoOPMAEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Are you planning to upgrade preemptively before the 12th, when many subreddits go dark? I might bump my instance just in case.

      • KNovaEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        I manually approve all requests to join so I’m not too worried. If I see a huge uptick I’ll upgrade

        • BetoOPMAEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Ah, good point! I do the same.

  • TmpodEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Welcome to the lemmyverse and thank you for contributing a new interesting instance :D
    I hope you have a great time here

    • BetoOPMAEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Thanks!