Is it fairly cheap to host your own personal, single-user Lemmy instance? (lemmy.world)

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Let's say I decided that instead of blogging, I wanted to host my own Lemmy instance that contained a maximum of one (1) user– me, but allowing other users to subscribe.

To show what I'm talking about, look at how kaidomac uses Reddit as his own personal microblog, which people subscribe to.

What is the cheapest way to do this?

My mental model of Lemmy is that if I were to do this, the instance would still be caching information from other instances. This would– at least in my mine– add up in costs.

I'm a software engineer, so feel free to use technical jargon.

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[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure how much you're willing to write off as "basically free", but electricity does add up for running your own server.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=200w%2A1%20year%20%2A%240.14%2FkWh

$245/year assuming constant 200W load which is pretty reasonable for a small web server.

The trick is to have the server do other things like print, Plex, Piwigo, Samba, Shinobi, Frigate, Matrix, etc

[-] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

My Plex/*arr Intel NUC server uses like 50-75W under heavy load and maybe 5W at idle, and I can't imagine it's not powerful enough to run a small Lemmy instance, so even this figure seems a little high to me.

[-] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 4 points 1 month ago

Same, but even lower (Beelink N95). My whole stack of two NAS units, mini PC, switch, router, and modem average a load of 50 watts.

[-] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Uhh... maybe putting a 9700k in my server wasnt as good of an idea as i thought it to be... it eats 74watts in idle... uhhh...

[-] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 2 points 1 month ago

Yeahhhh...

Obviously it can all depend on your requirements, but this N95 system has been pretty eye opening on how much people are over-speccing their builds for home server use. It has 8Gb of memory in it, but I seldom see it use more than 2. The box is doing DNS, Jellyfin, torrenting, VPN, private git, etc.

[-] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

I should.. probably get one of these n100 mobo that you can find on aliexpress...

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