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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah something like the CX22 https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/ which is € 4.51 / month is enough for lemmy.

What I do instead is I host a series of services on my VPS and I pay about 20 EUR/month

  • Lemmy
  • Mastodon
  • PeerTube
  • my ruby on rails website + blog
  • my old PHP website + blog
  • another old PHP blog
  • my sisters PHP website
  • my sisters static website
  • Firefox Sync server
  • my bands static website
  • a matrix server with some bridges
  • a syncthing instance
  • a TTRSS instance
  • another static website

and I probably forgot some things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Love this! Did you start out on the Fediverse or did you start on another and then move to your own?

I ask because I've been considering hosting my own for the family. I already have a server.

The thing holding me back is I've gotten my Mastodon and Lemmy accounts really nice with content and it's daunting to think of moving/remaking accounts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, both with Mastodon, PeerTube and Lemmy I started on my own instances. Actually not quite, I had an Mastadon account for a day somewhere before I decided that I want to use it for real and installed my own instance.