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Lemmy often racks up hundreds of gigabytes in logs and other crap, chokes up the hard drive, and then force restarts the server. Not fun for something you use to stream media from. Takes quite some tuning to get it sorted.
If we are talking about two virtual machines on the same physical server with dedicated storage allocation, that shouldn't matter.
Lol Wat.
Op, just budget 200gb for lemmy and you'll be fine. Our entire lemmy.ca server is only using 100gb. It'll be a good learning experience!
Also, check out jellyfin as a possible alternative to plex.
I should have specified that I was interested in creating a Mastodon instance, not Lemmy, but I’m glad to know that I could do that should I want to build one.
I’ve looked into Jellyfin as a secondary service. At the moment my parents have gotten used to navigating Plex and having them re-learn something new over the phone is…not something I have the energy or time for lol
As an example of my parents’ non-tech savvyness they have put off updating apps on their phones for years because they don’t trust that the updates are secure. I just don’t have the energy to act as a constant line of tech support.
Doesn't all the federated images take up a shit ton of space?
Images aren't federated, but their thumbnails are stored in your instance. You can prune those though as needed.
It's true, it logs a huge amount of stuff due to federation chatter. If you run it with docker, be sure to setup log rotation. I think the recommended lemmy ansible installation set the rotation to 50MB x 4 files. Or just
/dev/nullit.