Guides for hosting sites in Fediverse and federating?
Guides for hosting sites in Fediverse and federating?
Are they all gathered in one place somewhere or does it all need to be found case by case? Intrested in hosting a mastadon, pixelfed, and peertube instance. What are the vps requiremnts? I do like the idea of hosting all my own posts/comments, etc.
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Every software has its own documentation, so you need to look there because they are made with different technologies so that the installation process is different.
You can start with the smallest VPS, mastadon, pixelfed and peertube should work well enough on it. Once you want Lemmy you will need to expand it, but that's normally quite easy with VPS providers, without the need of reinstalling.
Oh and as a future PeerTube admin, may I interest you in my channel? https://tube.jeena.net/c/peertube_admin_chronicles/videos
I was just looking into this and going to post a similar question to the community. I saw a post recently about Friendica and thought that and Pixelfed might be things I’d be interested in self-hosting my own accounts, since I’d probably want those to be things I keep followers-only and connect only with people I know IRL. I’ve only used shared web hosting before and Friendica looked straightforward enough, but Pixelfed seemed much more involved. I’ve never done anything with a VPS before; I think I could do it but if anything went wrong I might be in trouble. Would that be an okay starting point or is that jumping in the deep end? I assume I’d be able to host both on the same VPS?
You can hist both on the same VPS without problems.
But hosting things is kind of involved, especially installing and updating. You at least need Linux knowledge to be able to do it.
An alternative seems to be https://yunohost.org/ which takes over most of the work for you, but I have never tried it myself.
How small do you mean by smallest like a 2 core 2gb 5$ a month one from hetzner? Or the even smaller ones some providers give?
Yeah the hetzner one.your biggest bottleneck will be the hard drive space.
But here I would propose to get a object storage and connect it to peertube, mastodon and Pixelfed, all of them let you store the media files in object storage, that is probably the cheapest way to host it.
Found a ton of better deals on lowendtalk, def not as reliable or trusted brands, but you get quite a bit for the price, especially when going annual