I'm looking to wind up a lemmy instance for a subreddit that I mod that gets something like 1000 daily visitors. We mainly share photos, though daily visitors greatly outweighs active users. It would additionally not be federated. For personal security reasons, and home networking limitations, I want to find a web host. Could anyone suggest one of the many hosts out there would work best for someone in the US, won't drive me to the poor house, and can support these needs? I can afford like $40/month, or can buy years in advance if it's a good deal.

I'm following the steps outlined in the official documentation at https://join-lemmy.org.

When I run

docker-compose up -d

It returns the following error

failed to read dockerfile: open /var/lib/docker/tmp/buildkit-mount182554177/Dockerfile: no such file or directory

Here's a screenshot from my terminal. https://i.imgur.com/Y27cfXf.png

How do I correct this?

EDIT: I've been researching this the best I can for some time now. The most common suggestion is to make sure that the Dockerfile is spelled correctly in the docker-compose.yml. It is.

Am I supposed to be creating a Dockerfile and fill it with some information? Is this intentionally left unaddressed by the guide for docker install? Is there some prerequisite I'm not fulfilling that the guide doesn't address?

ran docker-compose up -d. It's been about 9 hours and counting and it's still building 2/2. The machine has an i5-9300h and 16gb of ram, running the latest distro of Debian.

Seems to me like something isn't working. Does anyone have insight on what might be the problem?

When I run docker-compose up -d I receive the following error

unable to prepare context: unable to evaluate symlinks in Dockerfile path: lstat /docker: no such file or directory

ERROR: Service 'lemmy' failed to build : Build failed

I'm not sure where I'm going wrong here.

EDIT: I believe I've gotten this resolved. I followed another guide that included a script file to install docker-compose and docker-ce. Even though I installed docker-compose and docker.io like the official documentation instructed.

The command docker-compose up -d ran. However, it I'm not sure it's working, or how long I should expect it to be taking. Right now the terminal is showing "building 1146.4s (2/2). It's counting up the seconds and continues to as I type it. How long should I be expecting this to take on a machine with 16gb ram, and an i5-9300H?

I'm looking to host a lemmy instance for a small subreddit. I I am unsure if the load would be too much for my home network. In the last 30 days we got 1.7k comments, 96 posts, 95k views, with an average unique of 809.

My home internet connection is 100mb/s down, 20mb/s up. I use the network to work from home as well as general internet degeneracy when I'm off the clock. I have two roommates also using the network for personal stuff, but not working from home. Would this put too much load on my home network?

If it does, could anyone recommend a good web host service that is compatible with lemmy?

I want to set up a lemmy instance as a subreddit alternative for a community I moderate. I would be running the instance on a local machine in my home so I really want to make sure that it can't be traced to my physical location.

I already subscribe to ExpressVPN for general use, can I just install it on the local machine, press connect, and boom be anonymous? What impact would this have on users?

I'm looking to create a space for a small subreddit that I moderate that has maybe a couple hundred active users at most. I feel like the documentation provided here leaves a lot up to assuming the reader has prior knowledge of hosting a web service. I don't have any such prior knowledge so I'm hoping I can ask here. Please bear with me as I fumble my way through asking questions about a thing I'm doing for the first time.

I am thinking this is accomplished with a computer set up at my location, like a tiny little AWS in my bedroom running by the sheer force of my internet connection, and the hopes and dreams for my community. Or am I completely misunderstanding what it means to host an instance?

-Does the local machine store files like pictures posted by users? If yes I assume this means I should build a computer with sufficient storage to meet this demand.

-Does the lemmy install via ansible require the local machine to run an operating system? Or does ansible fill that role? I'm assuming the former based on the documentation for ansible, and that it should be a linux distro but I'm dense, so I'm asking.

-Is it required that the instance be federated to and visible to other instances? I would like for it to be isolated and somewhat private.

-The local machine would be connected to my personal business ISP connection. Could the instance be traced to my physical location? If so, what would be necessary to mitigate that?

-Am I entirely out of my depth? I can follow a guide real well, and problem solve, I just have no experience.

Thank you for your time!