cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2452085 > This is, of course, assuming that the instance is not hosted on the same network that the device your account is using is accessing it from.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2357075 > It seems that self hosting, for oneself, a federated service, like Lemmy, would only serve to increase the traffic in the network, and not actually serve the purpose of load balancing between servers. > > As far as I understand it, the way federation is supposed to work is that the servers cache all the content locally to then serve to the people that are registered to that server. In doing so, the servers only have to transmit a minimal amount of data between themselves which lowers the overhead for small servers -- this then means that a small server doesn't get overwhelmed by a ton of people requesting from it. Now, if, instead, you have everyone self hosting their own server, you go right back to having everyone sending a ton of requests to small servers, thereby overwhelming them. It seems that it's really only beneficial to the network if you have, say, hundreds of medium sized servers instead of, say, thousands, of very small servers. While there is the resilience factor, the overhead of the network would be rather overwhelming. > > Perhaps one possibility of fixing this is to use some form of load balancer like IPFS to distribute the requests more evenly, but I am no where even remotely close to being knowledgeable enough in that to say anything definitively.

I have Nextcloud installed as a snap. I would like to back it up to a folder on a separate drive within the server. Nextcloud appears to have [an official backup app](https://github.com/nextcloud/backup), which I have installed on the Nextcloud instance. Is it possible to connect a folder on a separate drive to Nextcloud running as a snap? What permissions should such a folder have?

Would I have to do anything on my end, or would everything be set up automatically when the update is pushed?

It seems that most information that I can find on the subject is about a year old, so I am wondering if anyone has any up-to-date info.

I have been trying to understand how the caching of content from other Lemmy instances works. From what I have gathered, the local Lemmy instance will automatically download and store posts made to any communities that are followed by users on the local instance. To me, this seems somewhat unsustainable in the long term - I am aware of the fact that it's only storing the text of the posts, and not any media. I'm curious if it's possible to configure the local instance to only cache the stored data for a certain amount of time (it might be better to just periodically purge the entire cache with a cronjob, or something); however, the data that I would like to store permanently is posts to any other community by users on the local instance, as well as posts made to communities on the instance (I have a suspicion that the communites data *is* permanently stored by default).

Do you need a domain name if you are hosting a Lemmy instance, or will it work fine with just an ip-address + port (e.g. `<username>@<ip-address>:<port>`)?

I'm interested in possibly hosting my own Lemmy instance - just for my own account. I was thinking of hosting it on Raspberry Pi (possibly the 1GB Pi 4 B), but I couldn't find much for definitive information on what the hardware requirements would be for such an instance to know if this is even possible. How much storage is required? Is the Pi 4 CPU powerful enough? How much memory?

I was thinking of setting up a home surveilance system using [Frigate](https://frigate.video/), and integrating it with [Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/). I'd probably have somewhere on the order of 10-15 1080p 30fps cameras. I'm not sure what components I should get for the server, as I am unsure of the actual processing requirements. EDIT 1: For some extra information, I did find that Frigate has a [recommended hardware page](https://docs.frigate.video/frigate/hardware).

I was told that I should post this here. cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/932750 > Say you decide to self-host a Lemmy instance. When you create that instance, do you immediately need to download and store all the data that has ever been posted to all federated Lemmy instances? Or perhaps you only need to download and store everything that is posted to the federated Lemmy instances from that point forward? Or better yet, do you only store what the users on that instance do (i.e. their posts, and posts to the communities hosted on that instance)?