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Want to selfhost a Lemmy server (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by XenoBen@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this an arm instance on hetzner? I was looking for something cheaper than digitalocean, but I like their networking quality a lot.

[–] jjakc@lemthony.com 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have mine running on the cheapest arm Hetzner instance, working well so far

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Glad to hear that!

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, Hetzner has ARM machines now? Very nice. Guess I should finally move at least my mail server to ARM.

[–] jjakc@lemthony.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, only in ~~Frankenstein~~ Falkenstein though. Which isn't a big deal if you're EU based anyway

[–] homelabber@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Frankenstein is the name of the doctor, not the name of the monster

[–] SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't know Lemmy could run on arm architecture. Is your installation with docker?

[–] jjakc@lemthony.com 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

4 CPU sd and 8G for 8 eur per month

holy crap, that's cheap!

[–] XenoBen@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

thanks, in VPS, any red flag I should care for? Privacy, monitoring, etc?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

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.