cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26074446

I’m trying to see if I can host my own Fediverse instance for friends and family and I want to know what kind of device would be required. I’m an absolute beginner to self-hosting so I was wondering if I can start cheap (Raspberry Pi 2GB RAM is something I can definitely consider).

Also, can one device host multiple software? Like if I wanted both a WordPress instance and a Hubzilla instance or a Matrix/XMPP instance

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netM
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    3 days ago

    I see you already got some reasonable responses in your cross post.

    Specifically Hubzilla is very light on resources. It will basically run anywhere. I had it running on an extremely cheap shared php host some years ago and that was mostly fine.

    Xmpp is also lightweight, but Matrix scales very badly once you try to enter any popular rooms with your server. It is better to run a xmpp server with a Slidge based Matrix gateway.