Looking to maybe self host my own instance, I’m still learning about the fediverse. If a different instance that I federate with hosts something illegal are there risks to me? Is anything from other instances hosted on my server like a copy of it? Or would I only end up hosting things my users post? I’m paranoid and sorry if this is a silly question.

  • pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev
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    1 year ago

    I’m running it in the smallest VPS of vultr with 25GB of disk.
    This instance only has 3 users, with me being the only active. It says it’s been up for almost a month and I’ve only used 3GB.

    Here are the docker volumes which have the actual data of your instance, and from inside the DB the biggest table is the one called activity which the devs said it’s only sometimes used to validate the data, but could be truncated if needed (there’s a schedule task which only keeps up to 6 months).
    Also the thing to have in mind is to properly configure the logs of whichever installation guide you follow.
    After that I’ve seen other admins say the next biggest is the media uploaded (from bigger instances).

    $ du -h --max-depth=1
    640K    ./pictrs
    3.2G    ./postgres
    3.2G    .
    
    lemmy=# select
      table_name,
      pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(quote_ident(table_name))),
      pg_relation_size(quote_ident(table_name))
    from information_schema.tables
    where table_schema = 'public'
    order by 3 desc;
             table_name         | pg_size_pretty | pg_relation_size
    ----------------------------+----------------+------------------
     activity                   | 2187 MB        |       2292867072
     comment                    | 56 MB          |         58212352
     person                     | 48 MB          |         50307072
     comment_like               | 45 MB          |         47161344
     post_like                  | 22 MB          |         22781952
     comment_aggregates         | 14 MB          |         14811136
     post                       | 13 MB          |         13623296
    
    • 𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙚@feddit.win
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      1 year ago

      How are you keeping your pictrs directory so small?

      Mine is at about 5GB after two weeks with just a single user. 😬

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        1 year ago

        I also have around 3GB used for pictrs and I’m not really sure the best way to see what all content is in there.

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          Yeah I haven’t uploaded any images on my instance myself. So none of those images are mine. Might do some reading tomorrow and see if there’s any mention of this in the past on other communities. It’s not an emergency but I’m curious.