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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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

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

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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.

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

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

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Glad to hear that!

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

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