A big thank you to all the Lemmy instance admins. We only really notice them when things go wrong. And every time something goes wrong, that means all the other admins had to perform superhuman feats so that sort of problem didn’t happen to them.
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But without all the other admins I wouldn’t have anyone to talk to. And they test out all the updates for me.
Honest question: How large is the file size for your instance? Like, how many Gb does it all take up?
Too much.
The pgsql database is about 2 GB compressed, but it shares that with Nextcloud and I can’t be bothered disentangling that right now.
But the picture storage takes the cake. I’ve disabled proxying images of other posts and pruned those that were proxied until then. I think. But still it takes up multiple GBs. I post many memes but not nearly enough to explain that. And because it puts all the images into a billion subdirectories it takes ages to even calculate how much storage is used. Dunno if it will be done by the time I’m done writing this post.
The picture storage is a huge black box. No idea what it’s doing all the time. I can’t shake the feeling that there must be better programs to handle pictures.
Performance is a big problem as well. I’ve only got hdds and all the constant synchronisation is hammering the database like crazy. Loading my own profile usually takes 2 or 3 tries.
Edit: It’s the next morning and my pictures take up 25 GB.
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If boost ever rolls out PieFed support, I’ll be there faster than Paris breaking the warp 10 barrier
