When Beehaw was first launched our disk usage (physical space on the server) was approximately 45%.
Right now we are up to 72% and this will continue to climb over time.
At the moment, I can only see two options. Firstly, go up an additional tier with our server host which would increase the monthly hosting cost.
Secondly, figure out a way to remove old and inactive posts. Hopefully, there is a batch process for this or something similar. I'm not an expert in this area, sadly.
What are your thoughts?
I know that logs take a good amount of storage on Lemmy servers. For example, my database is only ~1.9 GB but I'm using about 25 GB total space because I haven't truncated my logs in a while. You do have a much more populated server than mine though.
I've written a script that automatically keeps the logs small.