Hi all!

For those who are using a very small, limited-RAM VPS (smaller than 4GB), how are you finding keeping Lemmy up to date?

I’m doing each component piecemeal, and on my 2GB RAM VPS I couldn’t finish lemmy backend’s cargo build, just too much RAM required even with 1.5GB of swap (VPS provider is really going to enjoy that, I’m sure)

I did the production build on a machine at home and copied the lemmy_server over. Seems to be fine, but… rust or lemmy seem to have some massive resource requirements on the build.

  • Kinetix@lemmy.caOP
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    4 years ago

    I will have to keep my eyes open for that potential, as I’m not interested in putting docker on my systems. Though… I can easily stick with the tags to stay away from the breakage, no?

    I guess having the docker image solves the building resource issue.

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlM
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      4 years ago

      As long as you stay with our releases there should be no problems. But building and running without Docker is just extra work for you really.

      • Kinetix@lemmy.caOP
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        4 years ago

        I think it’s a great opportunity, to be honest. Good to get to know how each component is built & runs.

        Docker is another ‘thing’ that one has to work at, too - leaving the extra complexity on your system and hoping for the best isn’t my idea of managing a system very well. Though, the packaging definitely has it’s conveniences.