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Self hosting a Lemmy instance for just myself? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by jakkos@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Heya, I'm trying out Lemmy and kinda like the idea of hosting a Lemmy instance just for me.

I was wondering:

What are the hardware/bandwidth requirements for a single user instance?
I know different instances can black list each other, but can they whitelist each other too? I don't want to be automatically unable to see interact with certain instances.
Has anyone else done this and have thoughts to share?
What about doing the same for Mastodon?

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[–] Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

In case of Lemmy I used Lemmy-Easy-Deploy script. To host I used Oracle Cloud always free tier. Its risky because I've heard people say that since its free they can just pull the plug at any time, so you might consider to upgrade it to paid account, I heard its cheap. About requirements I have no idea. Im running my on a VM instance with Ubuntu minimal 22.04 aarch64. I pushed it to the maximum allowed for free account: 4 ARM cpu with 24Gb of Ram. I dont know anything about hosting mastodon.

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 2 points 2 years ago

Just make sure you keep regular backups of your data so you can spin it up somewhere else.

Also, people can crap all over Oracle (rightfully so), but I highly doubt they would kill the free tier one day w/o any warning at all.

[–] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 1 points 2 years ago

Lemmy-Easy-Deploy is awesome, and yes, Oracle will burn you eventually, and you won't be able to access your instance to run one of the migrate scripts to move elsewhere. Everything will be permanently gone.

Check out Hetzner instead. They have reasonable prices and DCs in both the EU and the US. They also just started offering ARM servers as well.