@fastfinge@interfree.caI always forget just how small and compressible text is. The entire database for this instance is less than 5 gigs in size, with about four million posts. And that includes overhead for the indexes, views, log files, etc. The big drain on any instances is the media. I proxy remote media, but don't cache it, so the only crap I have to store is my own. Same for rblind.com; it's also only a few gigs. Slightly more, because we cache some thumbnails, and a Lemmy post is generally much longer than a microblogging post.