I’m interested in possibly hosting my own Lemmy instance - just for my own account. I was thinking of hosting it on Raspberry Pi (possibly the 1GB Pi 4 B), but I couldn’t find much for definitive information on what the hardware requirements would be for such an instance to know if this is even possible. How much storage is required? Is the Pi 4 CPU powerful enough? How much memory?
Pi4 is powerful enough, barely. 1GB is too low, is there a 1GB Pi4? Thought it was 2GB min? Think recommendation is 4GB min, 8 better.
Storage is the real issue, it takes a lot a day, but it’s all based on unique communities subscribed on the server, so if you have 4 accounts all looking at the same 8 communities it’s the same as 1 guy looking at those 8 communities.
4GB/day for a lot of communities, obviously less for less.
I’m not sure if it’s still valid, but Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) had a 4 vCPU, 24 GB RAM, 200 GB HDD free tier. No costs, ever! You could sign up there and setup an even bigger instance.
I was thinking of doing the same just with an lxc (Proxmox). Your Pi should be enough based on a few comments. I’d give it a try
