Dusty

Any thoughts on this OP or is this more “let me just link this everywhere and not actually give any discussion about it myself” links are so prevalent on lemmy lately.

That’s why it’s stated in the Lemmy docs to use an image host instead of uploading directly. Unfortunately, most users don’t do that.

I have a couple, including the one running my lemmy instance I’m posting this from. They’ve all been pretty good for me. I don’t push any of them hard or anything, but I’ve not had any problems.

Admins, make sure you update to 18.2, this has already been patched:

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-07-11_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.2

My lemmy instance is hosted on a 1GB vps with no problem. Even with a few other services on the same VPS.

No, but some people are stuck behind CG-NAT and can’t port forward to the outside world for wireguard. Things like Cloudflared, Tailscale and ZeroTier get past that.

It’s of course possible to use wireguard to a VPS and tunnel into that, but that’s a bit more technical to set up.

If it works for you and allows you to start learning, there’s no problem with it. Too many people seem to think that if you haven’t compiled whatever yourself, it’s not true “self hosting” but you should do what works best for you to get to the goal you want.