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Interested in setting up an instance with a spare laptop (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 years ago by BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have a spare laptop running Linux Mint. I would like to try running my own instance and sharing it with a few users to help out and for the experience. Below are the specs. Do you think it will be powerful enough, and if so, how many users would it be able to handle? I could restrict uploading of media if that would make a considerable impact.

Dell Inspiron 15-5000 CPU: Intel Core i5-5200U, 2 cores, 4 threads RAM: 8GB Storage: SanDisk SSD Plus 1TB

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[–] crunchymunchytoast@lemmy.world 7 points 3 years ago (1 children)

A good frame of reference would be the VPS that lemmy.world is running on imo. Looks like they upgraded to a 4 core/16gb setup to handle the influx of users, so if your instance is running under 1k users, I believe those specs would be sufficient.

If it starts chugging, I wonder how well it'd work to run the server on the laptop and the DB on a VPS (or vice versa).

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

This probably informs me as to my idea. I had a Raspberry Pi sitting around on a shelf somewhere, and wasn't sure if it could handle an instance for a few basics. Sounds impractical.

[–] crunchymunchytoast@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago

I suppose it depends. An 4/8gb RPi 4 may be able to handle a smalll instance, keeping in mind that a 2 core/4gb VPS has sufficed for most instances until the recent influx. My concern with using one would be primarily with storage capacity and speeds, but iirc, there's a SATA hat you can get to connect drives directly (as opposed to external USB storage).