I recently purchased a NAS and was considering installing an instance on it. but being that this would be on my home network, i’ll probably cap it at like 50 users or something. I found one post where someone was saying that the RAM and CPU usage was pretty low, but what about network usage. My NAS also runs Plex and i’d hate for my max 30Mbps to be overrun by the lemmy instance.
Anybody got the data on whether or not it would be viable?
I wouldn’t recommend hosting it from your home network. Even if you are only having a couple of buddies on there it could easily be ddosd by a post going viral or something. Also you would permanently leak your personal IP adress to the outside world. There are ways to protect yourself against that but it’s probably not worth the effort. You are better off just renting a cheap vps for your 50 person instance. You can rent those for like 5usd a month. Share that money with a handful of friends. Everyone puts 10 bucks in and you can pay upfront for multiple years.
If you host a private instance, absolutely. If public, its a massive security risk to be doing on a home network.
