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Linkwarden has pretty minimal hardware requirements - it was tested on a VPS with 4gb of memory and it ran pretty smoothly, the most intense part is when you build the app, but once it's running it's relatively lightweight.
From their website. I wouldn't consider tested on 4gb vps having minimal hardware.
I use Linkding and I am very happy with it. Less feature? Maybe. But it's a bookmark sync. What do you need?
A bookmark sync. Thanks. I'll check it out.
If you just want to sync bookmarks I don't think linkwarden is what you want. Maybe floccus? I'm going to check out linkding that someone else mentioned because using git to sync floccus is broken on mobile platforms.
LOL if 4gb of memory is pretty minimal I am curious to know that they think to be resource intensive.
The maximum memory I am willing to allocate to a lxc container dedicated to bookmark management (=something that I access twice a month) is 256mb
4gb isn't so bad for a build, but wtf does it need to just run smoothly?!
I use Linkding too, it's very light and it's great, I only wish it had the exclude tag filter and no tag filter. That would make it perfect.
It's intensive because its trying to archive the links and spends a lot of ram doing so.
It's more like a replacement for pocket.
Before I started to host a bookmark service i made some investigation, and the final dockerized contenders in 2023 for what relates to memory were:
Shaarli: (~ 50Mb of RAM )
Shiori: ( ~30Mb of RAM but lacks quite some features)
linkding ( ~200Mb of RAM)
In the end i went with Shaarli
I guess my question would be what are your resources?
2 Gb ram and 2 CPU cores... I know it ain't much, but I was not expecting a minimum requirement of 4 gb
I have it running on an old Dell quadcore workstation with 16gb of memory, alongside around 30 other Docker services including a full Servarr stack, and haven't noticed any issues with it.
Runs smooth on my old qnap 453 :]