I’ve been on the Fediverse since 2016, and I still get a little mixed up by how things work.

  • Eggyhead@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    What’s it like running your own instance for yourself? Do you need to have a server running and a bunch of storage space?

    • dan@upvote.au
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      1 year ago

      It’s working well! I already had a VPS that was only running Mastodon and had plenty of spare capacity, so I just installed Lemmy on the same server.

      One of the hosts I use (GreenCloudVPS) was having a 9th birthday sale where they were offering a VPS with 9 cores (old Intel Xeon E5 though), 9GB RAM, 99GB NVMe disk space for $99 every three years ($33/year). It wasn’t doing much until I installed Mastodon on it.

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      1 year ago

      I’m interested in spinning one up as well, mostly for having the choice of what to name the domain lmao. Right now I gotta look more into it. Hopefully @dan can get back to us with some numbers.