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Hey dear community, we just launched today our fully managed hosting service of KBIN

We offer to do Deployment / Security / SSL / DNS / SMTP / Monitoring / Alerts / Backups / Automated updates / Handle migrations / Fully automated but with Human support :)

We deploy each instance on a dedicated VM, and we provide full root access as well if you want to customize anything.

Pricing start at $10/month (billed hourly, no contract)
https://elest.io/open-source/kbin

FYI we have interest in Open source in general, not only Fediverse even if we also support Mastodon, Friendica, PeerTube, Gitea and now KBIN!

I would love to get some feedback from the community :)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It sounds to me like the bar to deploy had been something of a barrier to deploying kbin for some. It will be interesting to see what happens with the instance count after this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I tried to self host using the docs and docker.

Normally I would check out source, build and deploy, but the docs suggest an entirely manual deployment or build/deploy via docker compose.

The issue I hit was figuring out what had failed in the process, I would have preferred a CI guide to produce working docker images and a CD guide for deploying the docker images.

The reason I gave up is there aren't any release markers, I tried with develop and main and couldn't figure out if it was me or the branches weren't in a buildable state.

I don't expect the a release to be perfect just an indicator that a working product was created at this point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd love to deploy my own instance of either kbin or lemmy, but a ten buck a month price tag is a bit steep (imho). I'll wait until there are better guides for hosting my own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@Books that includes the server bill too.

@jbenguira @tal

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And more that are even smaller.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, there's more page of instances if you open the link.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glanced right over the link…..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a next page button...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, I gave you the link to go click it if you want

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes I know. Just saying, I think there is more than a "few" instances by now 🙏😊