Hi—I have some free Azure credits and would like to use them to host a personal Lemmy instance. I know Lemmy is containerised, but is there a preferred choice for hosting in Azure—AKS, Azure Container Apps, Container Instances? Also, any guidance on appropriate PostgreSQL configuration—I know there are some options around that.
Also, can anyone point me at what resource utilisation will look like for a Lemmy instance—I imagine disk space is more of a concern that compute usage.
I’m not sure if the other instances have published their numbers, I can only see what my Docker volumes look like.
But if it helps you plan, you should know that federation only involves new data. When you set up a new instance, and federate with/subscribe to a community, it will only fetch an initial 20 posts (if that). From that point forward, you will receive a copy of all posts/comments posted to that community, but you will not have anything from before you federated. So you don’t have to worry about mirroring the entirety of a community’s history - I’d probably be out of disk space 3 times over if that were the case.
There are ways for users to retrieve “old” posts, but it’s done on an individual basis, not in bulk.