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?

  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You should think before releasing dangerous information on the internet!

    You can get a 2core 8GB / 240GB for 75€!!

    Uh oh, I think I’ll have to buy one now…

    • tristan@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This is my little setup at the moment. Each is 8500t CPU, 32gb ram, 2tb nvme and 1tb SATA SSD all running in a proxmox cluster

      Edit: also check out Dell micro or the hp… Uh I want to say it’s g6 micro? You might need to search for what is actually called

        • tristan@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Thanks :D the frame and all parts are self designed and 3d printed… was a fun project

          The whole thing runs from just 2 power cables with room for another without adding any extra power cables

      • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Not at all overkill? :-D

        Future proofing or is it really used ? I don’t know proxmox, is it some docker launcher thingy?

        Very cool anyways!