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Storage size on instance servers (midwest.social)
submitted 2 years ago by seahorse@midwest.social to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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I recently had to expand my instance's storage size from 25 GB to 50 GB because it was out of space. How much storage do you all use for your instances? I'm a little surprised that it ran out of space as my instance isn't heavily used.

Am I doing something wrong? I prune all the unused docker images, so it's not that.

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@dessalines@lemmy.ml how much space does lemmy.ml use?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Pretty much nothing, postgres volumes folder is ˜500MB, but that really doesn't change much. Remember that text data really doesn't take up much space: all of english wikipedia is about 20 GB.

Picture storage in pictrs is the main issue. The only thing I could suggest there, is to use either a remotely running pictrs, or to use sshfs to mount the pictrs volumes folder to a remote machine (non-VPS) that has a ton of storage.

[–] NormieGirl@lemmy.perthchat.org 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You could also delete old pictures. I think mastodon does this.

[–] electrodynamica@mander.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not familiar with pictrs and how it works, but software I wrote which contains thumbnails and full copies of every image on the fediverse along with fingerprints, full database metadata, etc, doesn't take up even a tiny fraction of that space. So...

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

mastodon only does this for remote content!

[–] NormieGirl@lemmy.perthchat.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

TIL! What's your mastodon acct username?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

sorry I am not saying, I want to keep the identities separate.

[–] NormieGirl@lemmy.perthchat.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Same deal here lol

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

good! It's better to be safe than sorry ^^