Title, I want to host a Lemmy instance and to save money I was hoping to use a pizero that I already have. I would consider a vps, but I worry about bandwidth
You won’t be able to host a big instance.
According to this thread https://lemmy.ml/post/440678?scrollToComments=true 1GB of ram should be enough for a small one. The pi zero has 512MB. I’d say you should still try, just so we know
Lemmy instance requieres at minimun 150mb of RAM, the CPU usage is minimum. Don’t expect it to scale well to a lot of users, but it should work for a few users. More info here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/administration.html:
Running one on a 6$/month droplet. The TLDR is you’ll definitely need a swapfile for spikes, but for a single user it’ll probably work, though be a little slow to load communities for the first time. Mine is subbed to a huge amount of communities and so far the disk usage is nothing serious
No, the pi zero is not going to be capable of running a Lemmy instance. I wouldn’t recommend running it on a Pi at all unless you plan to store files on an SSD. I currently run my very tiny instance with just two users on a vpc with two CPU cores and 4gb of RAM but I still occasionally have performance issues.
