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submitted 2 years ago by XenoBen@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago
[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years ago

How long have you been using Contabo? Are they reliable enough?

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] jjakc@lemthony.com 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 years ago

Glad to hear that!

[-] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] jjakc@lemthony.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] homelabber@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] jjakc@lemthony.com 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

oh no, that'll teach me for using LanguageTool!

[-] SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] jjakc@lemthony.com 3 points 2 years 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

[-] michael@lemmy.roflblog.net 2 points 2 years ago

Hosting on Ubuntu 22.04, worked a charm with Ansible. Docker was a mess, couldn't figure it out.

[-] XenoBen@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years 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.

[-] ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

4 CPU sd and 8G for 8 eur per month

holy crap, that's cheap!

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