$ cd lemmy-dir
$ du -sh *
456K    lemmy-ui
15G     pictrs
4.3G    postgres

Guys this is no longer funny please I feel literally chased by the “no space left” message. Please help I don’t need those pics I did not upload them

  • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    They’re thumbnails of other instance posts. I suggest migrating pictrs to the S3 for cheaper/easier storage.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      S3 isn’t always cheaper though… It’s highly redundant storage (multiple copies in multiple data centers) so it’s always going to cost more than a single copy on a single VPS or dedicated server or whatever. I guess in some cases it might end up cheaper compared to upgrading your storage to something larger though.

      If you do want to migrate your images “to the cloud”, Backblaze B2 should end up cheaper than S3.

      • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago
        • You don’t pay for storing on multiple servers. I never saw something like this on any provider I know.
        • Upgrading storage is not cheaper. Instance media storage reaches 500GB in a month and S3 is always cheaper than data volumes with given options for pictrs.
        • Backblaze is not cheapest. It has egress fees so it will cost much more than others. Although its cheaper than AWS.