How much space is currently used by Lemmy.ml database? I’m thinking of hosting my own instance and wondering what parameters are needed.
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Without checking, its probably under, 100 MB. The main thing that matters for disk usage are image uploads, which can take a lot of space over time.
Is it possible to serve the images from a separate server?
Thats definitely possible.
A suggestion, I would suggest limiting image uploads to 5 MB. Even the utmost largest images can be easily compressed to under that, and be readable and without much artifacts.
Just checked, An uncompressed SQL backup of the text is at ~550 MB. But yes text is not going to be a problem for many years, just pictures.
