this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
20 points (100.0% liked)

Selfhosted

40183 readers
769 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] netburnr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You don't have to allow sign-ups, therefor no modding to do if it's only you.

[–] ionhowto@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like this it does make sense for learning and it can be done locally on a regular PC. No need to even have it running more than 5h/ week.
Only start it when trying something.

There are other more interesting things to learn and setup. Something like a honeypot.

[–] netburnr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Counterpoint, someone will learn about Debian, ansible, docker, and troubleshooting all of the above.

Personally I've run into many bumps along the way, some really dumb and not documented at all. But it was a fun learning experience.

[–] TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what I'm doing. Totally closed sign-ups except for a few close irl friends.

[–] nude@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what im going to do when I get a spare few hours to set it up.

Im looking at it in the same way as my searx instance. Just a private portal that will have as much uptime as I can maintain, federated with who I want and no one I dont.

[–] techgearwhips@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Same. I'm glad I found this thread because I was wondering if it was ok to do this.