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I have an Oracle Always Free VPS. 4 ARM Ampere A1 vCPUs, 24GB RAM, 200GB storage. Will this be a good fit as a server for a Lemmy instance? Are there any issues with hosting Lemmy on aarch64?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it works fine, depending on popularity of your instance - you might have to add more resources in the future.

as for aarch64 - there are docker images available for lemmy and lemmy-ui

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, I’ll hope to not use docker though - planning to run NixOS, which has a module for it.

Just double checked, the nixpkgs for lemmy-ui and lemmy-server have aarch64-linux support B)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i have not used NixOS yet, not sure how easy to setup it on Oracle OCI, but i guess you will do fine ;)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Let’s hope this helps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You were right :) look at my username! Installation was very interesting - using kexec to swap the current loaded kernel to a NixOS live image, and installing it right over the current system surprisingly worked flawlessly. One reboot for an entire install (I might end up writing a post in [email protected] about it).

Setting up lemmy was a bit more difficult though, as the lemmy module is currently in the middle of a pull request to improve it, so I had to do some hacky trickery.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as for aarch64 - there are docker images available for lemmy and lemmy-ui

Oh seriously? That kinda stopped me from hosting my own. Got a link?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah I thought you might be referring to someone building their own image based on the Lemmy repos, because those give me exec errors when I start them on my OCI

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

i used to compile then using Dockerfile in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/docker/Dockerfile - probably you can use those commands on nixOS as well.