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  • Pigeon@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I wish Lemmy had a really easy way for people to self host their own instances without having to know really much of anything at all about how it works (or at least an easy and comprehensive Guide to Self-hosting for Dummies!), so that we were less likely to end up with too many people on too few instances.

    I’ve never self-hosted anything, and I know I could learn it, but it’s still a project.

    • flatbield@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I think any self-hosting is technical. Especially technical is the security aspect, and especially time consuming is all of the updates over time. I actually have a VPS at linode. Lot of stuff to set that up and keep up to date. Not talking Lemmy. Way more efficient for me just to pay $7 x 12 to these guys to take care of all of that. Just say $7 because that is the monthly cost to run my VPS. Well that plus my domain which is not free either.

      Anyway, just some thoughts based on my non-Lemmy experience.