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.

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months 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.

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        2 months ago

        … for a small web server.

        It’s not just a small web server. It’s a dedicated server with full root access and 24/7 direct hardware access without any extra costs.

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        2 months 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.

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        2 months ago

        If you were worried about saving energy, you would be running an XMPP server over Matrix. Matrix has similarly expensive requirements as Lemmy but Prosody or ejabberd can hum in the background.