this post was submitted on 23 May 2026
15 points (100.0% liked)

Fediverse

42184 readers
130 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, Mbin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
ruud@lemmy.world
Xylinna@lemmy.world
MrCenny@lemmy.world
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world
automodbeta@lemmy.world
woelkchen@lemmy.world
15
System Resource (RAM and CPU) usage for self hosting fediverse social platforms (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 hours ago by geoma@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I want to host a fediverse instance but I need it to be light (limited system resources). Mastodon seems to be kinda heavy. GotoSocial is supposedly very light? (but limited on functionality?) is Pixelfed much heavier? Bonfire is built on elixir so should also be light? Akkoma? Pleroma?

Also, I need it to be engaging to people migrating mostly from IG, so I do need some bells/whistles I guess

thanks!

top 3 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Tealk@rollenspiel.forum 1 points 25 minutes ago

What do you think of Friendica? It only needs PHP and a database.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

https://aussie.zone/post/21093

Couple hundred users and it's running on 8GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 160GB NVME storage. Which according to OVH Sydney is about AU$10/m

But that doesn't include the the Pict-rs media store so keep that in mind for your storage numbers.

[–] M33@piefed.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

For a single user instance (or friends - family) pretty much anything will do.

Consider also ease of administration, upgrade smoothness. It vary quite a lot depending on the stack and maturity of instances flavors.