I have an Oracle Always Free VPS. 4 ARM Ampere A1 vCPUs, 24GB RAM, 200GB storage. Will this be a good fit as a server for a Lemmy instance? Are there any issues with hosting Lemmy on aarch64?

  • neoney@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Thanks, I’ll hope to not use docker though - planning to run NixOS, which has a module for it.

    Just double checked, the nixpkgs for lemmy-ui and lemmy-server have aarch64-linux support B)

    • I eat words@group.ltEnglish
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      2 years ago

      i have not used NixOS yet, not sure how easy to setup it on Oracle OCI, but i guess you will do fine ;)

      • neoney@lemmy.neoney.devEnglish
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        2 years ago

        You were right :) look at my username! Installation was very interesting - using kexec to swap the current loaded kernel to a NixOS live image, and installing it right over the current system surprisingly worked flawlessly. One reboot for an entire install (I might end up writing a post in !NixOS@infosec.pub about it).

        Setting up lemmy was a bit more difficult though, as the lemmy module is currently in the middle of a pull request to improve it, so I had to do some hacky trickery.