Hey. I really like the idea of the fediverse and Lemmy and would want to know as a beginner/not so experienced regarding selfhosting what would be the best way to get started?
I saw there are vps options, but don’t know of I’m looking in the right direction.
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Get a cheap linux VPS. My host provides 4 CPU sd and 8G for 8 eur per month which should be enough for something like 500 users.
Then just run the ansible playbook. It will do everything for you
thanks, in VPS, any red flag I should care for? Privacy, monitoring, etc?
Very low bandwidth caps will be a problem with fediverse.
Other than that, check your steal % once you have the VM. If it’s over 20% consistently, you’re being ripped off.
Is this an arm instance on hetzner? I was looking for something cheaper than digitalocean, but I like their networking quality a lot.
I have mine running on the cheapest arm Hetzner instance, working well so far
Glad to hear that!
I didn’t know Lemmy could run on arm architecture. Is your installation with docker?
No, with the Ansible method. I tried the docker method, but it really didn’t want to work for me.
If you go the Ansible way though make sure you’re using a Debian 11 based OS