I’m trying to better understand hosting a Lemmy Instance. Lurking discussions it seems like some people are hosting from the Cloud or VPS. My understanding is that it’s better to futureproof by running your own home server so that you have the data and the top most control of hardware, software etc. My understanding is that by hosting an instance via Cloud or VPS you are offloading the data / information to a 3rd party.

Are people actually running their own actual self-hosted servers from home? Do you have any recommended guides on running a Lemmy Instance?

  • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
    53·
    1 year ago

    But you don’t control the hardware if you run it on a VPS?

    • PorkSoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      If your server has IPMI, there’s little difference between being there in person and not.

    • J_C___@lemmy.placeEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      You control the hardware you are provisioned and the software you run on it, which is enough for me. Unless you’re looking for a job in the server adminstration/maintenance field the physical hardware access component of it matters less IMO

      • SatyrSack@lemmy.oneEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        You definitely don’t control the hardware. Someone else at some remote server farm or something does.

        • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Some of them offer what they call bare metal provisioning and I wonder if some even offer ILOM type access. That’s pretty much control of the hardware for me. Just that you can’t plug in a disk or a memory stick.