From 61ad046f84d953af7571bbc8690fa04994ed9ecb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: TheFrenchGhosty <47571719+TheFrenchGhosty@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 08:48:28 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update the hardware requirements (#248) * Update the hardware requirements * Update the RAM amount for public instances * Reword * Reword mbits to mbps * Apply suggestions + Reword * Typo * Apply suggestions --- docs/installation.md | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/installation.md b/docs/installation.md index 04462af..cffb34f 100644 --- a/docs/installation.md +++ b/docs/installation.md @@ -1,13 +1,18 @@ # Installation -Compiling Invidious requires at least 2GB of free RAM (We recommend to have at least 3GB installed). -If you have less (e.g on a cheap VPS) you can setup a SWAP file or partition, so the combined amount is >= 3GB. - After installation take a look at the [Post-install steps](#post-install-configuration). Note: Any [PaaS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service) or [SaaS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service) provider/software (Heroku, YunoHost, Repli...) are unsupported. Use them at your own risk. They **WILL** cause problems with Invidious and might even suspend your account for "abuse" since Invidious is heavy, bandwidth intensive and technically a proxy (and most providers don't like them). If you use one and want to report an issue, please mention which one you use. +## Hardware requirements + +Running Invidious requires at least 512MB of free RAM (so ~2G installed on the system), as long as the is restarted regularly, as recommended in the post-install configuration. Public instances should ideally have at least 4GB of RAM, 2vCPU, a 200 mbps link and 20TB of traffic (no data cap/unlimited traffic is preferred). + +Compiling Invidious requires at least 2.5GB of free RAM (We recommend to have at least 4GB installed). +If you have less (e.g on a cheap VPS) you can setup a SWAP file or partition, so the combined amount is >= 4GB. + + ## Automated Installation [Invidious-Updater](https://github.com/tmiland/Invidious-Updater) is a self-contained script that can automatically install and update Invidious.