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How does image uploading work on Lemmy? (vlemmy.net)

submitted 1 year ago by Silviecat44@vlemmy.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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When you upload an image in the URL bar when creating a post, where does it go? Are they hosted on the respective Instance of the community?

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[–] hellothisisdog@yiffit.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the docs don't explicitly specify but you can see in the image url that they do end up on the instance you upload to

[–] Silviecat44@vlemmy.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that cost the instance creator anything?

[–] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yes. running a server costs money. I have lemmyfly.org running just 2 days now on digitalocean using a cheap 1GB ram, 25GB diskspace and 1000GB bandwidth for $7,- a month. Storing images on the server will eventually take up all space and bandwidth meaning you have to upscale -> pay more.

Using a different location for storing images and/ or videos is best to offload the instance !