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How can I reduce the amount of storage used by my Lemmy instance? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by TrinityTek@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've had a Lemmy instance running on a VPS with 100 GB of storage for a few months and it has filled up. I've been searching for ways to reduce the amount of storage used but so far I am coming up empty. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 26 points 11 months ago

Instead of using the hard drive for pictrs, I suggest using it's S3 capabilities and migrating to bucket based storage. You'll save way more money and keep the expensive VPS hard drive just doing text and DB things. I think I spend maybe a dollar a month in S3 storage.

[-] elscallr@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

For anyone doing this, set up your spending and budget alerts and actions. It's possible to accidentally fuck something up and end up with an aws bill that'll suck, but this will give you some measure of protection from that in case you accidentally misconfigure something.

[-] TrinityTek@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion! As Nix asked, do you happen to know of a guide or any documentation I could reference for this?

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