I’d like to contribute to the Lemmy community. I’ve been running my own private Linux servers for more than 25 years for things like email (years ago before all the spam), and as file servers, backup, etc. It’s an old, not very powerful computer, running Ubuntu server, in a corner in my house. Is it worth running a Lemmy instance on such a machine? I suppose there’d also be issues of how much data is going in and out, and how that works impact my internet cable usage. Thoughts?
I’ve understood Lemmy is pretty light on the system, at least until the number of users starts to ramp up - from that end, you’re good to go! I personally went with a virtual server on Hetzner because I didn’t want to let this kind of data into my private network.