Hey all,
Just wondering what the consensus is on hosting directly on a computer versus virtualization? Right now I’m hosting my Lemmy instance on a Hetzner VPS, but I would like to eventually migrate to my Linux box at home. It currently runs as a media PC (Ubuntu) in the living room, but I always intended to self-host other software on the side since it should be more than capable of doing both (Ryzen 5600G, 16gb DDR4).
I’m just torn though - should I host a virtual machine on it for Lemmy, or run it directly on Ubuntu as-is? I plan to do some further self-hosting projects as well later down the line.
I honestly don’t think it matters much. I run my instance on a 2 cpu vm on hetzner, and I’ve noticed no negative impacts - it’s plenty snappy and has plenty of database space and all that. It’s pretty lightweight for a one person instance.
If you’re going for a bigger instance, it still doesn’t matter much as long as your instance is capable of handling the load.