@BjornW Apologies for missing that! The technical answer is that you can run it on most devices (including a Raspberry Pi) but the honest answer is that for a snappy experience you want to have enough RAM available (say 8 GB or more, depending of course on how big the instance will be).
@BjornW The resources your Bonfire instance needs mostly depend on:
- How many local users are active at the same time - How many remote users follow local users (and from how many instances) - How many distinct remote users are followed by local users - The volume and frequency of posts and other activities
Unless you already have a dedicated server, a flexible virtual server can be a good option so you can scale RAM/CPU as your instance grows, e.g: hetzner.com/cloud/
@BjornW as a rule of thumb bonfire.fishinthecalculator.me is running on a 4 vCores and 4GB of RAM. It has 2 users, from my own I follow the same people I follow from this account.
The server holds other web apps I self host but Bonfire is the only one that listens on the Fediverse.
CPU utilization si very low, between 20% and 40% on average. RAM pressure is slighlty worse, with no optimization applied the server tends to swap a bit. Usually RAM is around 60% and swap has gotten as high as 20%.
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The resources your Bonfire instance needs mostly depend on:
- How many local users are active at the same time
- How many remote users follow local users (and from how many instances)
- How many distinct remote users are followed by local users
- The volume and frequency of posts and other activities
Unless you already have a dedicated server, a flexible virtual server can be a good option so you can scale RAM/CPU as your instance grows, e.g: hetzner.com/cloud/
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Unknown parent • • •@BjornW as a rule of thumb bonfire.fishinthecalculator.me is running on a 4 vCores and 4GB of RAM. It has 2 users, from my own I follow the same people I follow from this account.
The server holds other web apps I self host but Bonfire is the only one that listens on the Fediverse.
CPU utilization si very low, between 20% and 40% on average. RAM pressure is slighlty worse, with no optimization applied the server tends to swap a bit. Usually RAM is around 60% and swap has gotten as high as 20%.