• mrmanager@lemmy.today
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      Use the ansible Lemmy install, it’s very simple and will also create https certs and everything. But you need a domain first, pointed at your hosted server ip address.

      https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible

      So basically:

      • Buy domain
      • Rent a server somewhere (hetzner is great and cheap).
      • Point domain at server ip.
      • Use the ansible install against your server to install everything.

      That’s pretty much it. The ansible install takes care of everything.

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        1 year ago

        How much power does it take to run an instance? Not planning on hosting my own, just curious. I read stories about people being able to host a Mastodon instance on a Raspberry Pi.

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          Yeah it doesn’t take much for a small instance. My instance uses 1 GB of memory and like 2% cpu on each core (got 3 cores). But I only have a handful of active users.

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          Im just a noob thats interested. I havent tried it yet. But ive found a couple guides.

          Check out the self hosting communities. Ill see if i can find the one im thinking of but Lemmy also has an official guide in the documentation.