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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Unfortunately, Lemmy Easy Deploy isn’t well suited for running behind a reverse proxy. It is a complete “do everything for me,” and I don’t have a good way to support people running a webserver already. I’ve pushed an update a few minutes ago, so you can try playing with the ports and maybe turning off Caddy’s TLS (so that certificates are managed by your webserver instead of the one in LED), but I’m sorry to say you’re on your own in that case :(

    Lemmy can basically run on a potato. Any VPS will do, but the main metric you’ll want to keep track of is disk space. Any $5/month instance will be fine.

    I am a moderate-to-heavy user of Lemmy, and I go through about 700MB of new data per day. If you federate with less communities than me, this may be less for you. At my current rate of storage, I can go for about a month and a half before I have to worry about storage space.

    After that, I’m thinking about clearing my thumbnail cache, and seeing if Lemmy has some way to prune old data. I haven’t been using Lemmy long enough to know what to do to clean things up, but if I figure out something clever in a month or two, I’ll share what I learn.


    EDIT: Turns out ~90% of my Lemmy data is just for debugging and not needed:

    https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3103#issuecomment-1631643416