When you upload an image in the URL bar when creating a post, where does it go? Are they hosted on the respective Instance of the community?

  • majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org
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    1 year ago

    yes. running a server costs money. I have lemmyfly.org running just 2 days now on digitalocean using a cheap 1GB ram, 25GB diskspace and 1000GB bandwidth for $7,- a month. Storing images on the server will eventually take up all space and bandwidth meaning you have to upscale -> pay more.

    Using a different location for storing images and/ or videos is best to offload the instance !