For those self-hosting a lemmy instance, what hardware are you using? I am currently using a small Hetzner VPS. It has 2 vCPU, 2GB RAM and 40GB SSD storage. My instance is currently just in testing with me as the only user, but I plan to use it for close friends or family that may want to try this out, but might not want to sign up for a different instance. My CPU and RAM usage is great so far. My only concern is how large the storage will balloon to over time. I’ve been up for ~20 hours and it’s grown to 1.5G total volume since.
Currently a 1CPU/2GB RAM Linode instance for 26 users. Linode’s pricing gets insane as you scale up though so I will definitely be looking elsewhere if I need to scale much bigger. I think I could get away with 1gb of RAM at half the cost right now, but I’m also hosting a Matrix homeserver on this VPS and Synapse is a hungy boy.