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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    1 year ago

    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

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      1 year ago

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

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            They’re good enough for hobby projects, but don’t rely on them for very critical infrastructure, unless you can setup reliable high availability yourself. Multiple times they took down my DB for hours on the weekend and were unavailable to fix until Monday.

            However they’re one of the best power for money available. I’ve been using them for something like 10 years now, but I started using them way more extensively 1 year ago when I started the AI Horde

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              Different experiences I suppose. Used Contabo to host an ansible setup of Lemmy, never had a single outage for 6 months.

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                It’s down to luck. I’ve had two different DB contabo server hit by outages. I once had about 8 VMs going down together. If you’ve managed to avoid it, great. But it’s a matter of time.

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              These random unannounced outages are what I had heard multiple times before. While I’m under to illusion my lemmy instance is something special, I do aim for 100% uptime. Shit happens, things go down, but it appears Contabo has grown a reputation for it :( I may try hetzner at some point.

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                you get what you pay for. but there’s no 100% uptime. and five 9s are really expensive to setup. You can work around contabo’s iinstability by smart clustering, but I don’t know if lemmy supports that very well. You might need some expertise with k8s etc.

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                  Oh, don’t get me wrong - I’m under to illusion of having 100% uptime, I’m simply aiming for it :D The idea of cloud is so that hardware redundancy problems are handled by them - that’s the selling point. Otherwise I can achieve random outages quite well on my own hosting stuff at home :D

                  I do understand what you mean, though - you get what you pay for.

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      1 year ago

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

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        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.