14 days later, my postgres directory was 12GB. I was still on 18.1. Updated to 18.3 just now. Postgres directory was downscaled to 2.6GB !!! Thank you Lemmy dev’s and contributors !!

pictrs isn’t even taking up that much space, postgres takes up most !

# du -sch volumes/*
8.0K	volumes/lemmy-ui
3.4G	volumes/pictrs
8.2G	volumes/postgres
12G	total

I also noticed the logs were growing and taking up quite some gb’s. I’ve used truncate to make the syslog smaller and journalctl vacuum to keep that smaller

i’m trying to find documentation for this config but can’t find any. Do you have a link maybe ?

thanks for your detailed how-to ! Will try this, hopefully it holds 2 more weeks I’m leaving for holidays now :)

oh it’s visible because I’m admin/ mod ?

actually I did delete the server (after creating a snapshot of it) a week or so ago. But this morning I wanted to check lemmyfly.org, couldn’t load the page. Checking my Hetzner dashboard I noticed CPU was spiked at 200%?! It did drop again though, but apparently had last for 2-3 minutes. But prometheus was down, so no graphs apart from the hetzner ones. I doesn’t relate to network traffic spikes, so I don’t know what caused it. I’ve started the prometheus server again (that snapshot was really useful :) ) and will leave it on for a couple of months now.

current system consumption:

I might need to get an extra volume for storage, Lemmy is starting to eat up the root filesystem… Does anyone know how I re-configure Lemmy to look at a different volume for storage ?

why all these upvotes? This post is on top of my posts since yesterday.

http_response metrics are also up, using https://github.com/martin-helmich/prometheus-nginxlog-exporter

would be nice to see the numbers go up :)

Let us know your findings when you did!

i’m now looking into logging more specific http request data. Maybe https://github.com/martin-helmich/prometheus-nginxlog-exporter?

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or the community you are posting to doesn’t allow Undetermined language, and that’s what you’ve selected. There is no error handling for that yet

Where can I find these stats?

How can people afford to host an instance? Aren’t there costs to hosting a server?

my instance (currently only 18 users) is on a basic server plan costing me ± $7,- a month. When that’s becoming much higher I’ll ask for donations to help me out (and I’ll be fully transparent on the current server costs and how much is donated)

no, a random image I just now check was 3.3mb even. But you’re right, the image source does point to the origins server location… Then why are all those images stored on the server ?

When I look on my server in the volumes/pictrs folder, there are a LOT of images that I recognize from my feed. They are not from posts posted to my server but belong to posts of communities that I have subscribed to

Thats the way the decentralized fediverse works (I think!) let me know if I’m wrong

only pictures and posts that the instance-member are subscribed to, and from the moment they interacted with it. But yes, I’m curious to see where this goes.

I noticed it when I was looking in the database and disk on my instance, where there are already thousands of posts and more then a thousand images - while my own instance only has a couple of posts and images

lots of traffic on many small files eventually uses more disk space and bandwidth. Depends on the growth of the instance