Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What does it cost to host a lemmy? Is that something you could self host?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Looking at the resource usage of mine, a tiny cheap VPS for $4/mo would be enough, sans the image store. But it's not a hard requirement unless you expect to have lots of local communities posting pictures.

Lemmy's issue is that it's non-trivial to deploy and oftentimes painful to upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But it’s not a hard requirement unless you expect to have lots of local communities posting pictures.

Doesn't lemmy sync posts, comments, and pictures with other instances? I remember after a CP attack some instances manually turned it off in the code to avoid troubles, and also had to clear their storage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It absolutely does. Think of lemmy like of email – your mail server has all the email you received.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Looking at the resource usage of mine, a tiny cheap VPS for $4/mo would be enough

Not including the time cost to manage it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's exactly my point, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I was trying to say that the hardware cost to host it may not be expensive, but the management cost could be quite costly.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah something like the CX22 https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/ which is € 4.51 / month is enough for lemmy.

What I do instead is I host a series of services on my VPS and I pay about 20 EUR/month

Lemmy
Mastodon
PeerTube
my ruby on rails website + blog
my old PHP website + blog
another old PHP blog
my sisters PHP website
my sisters static website
Firefox Sync server
my bands static website
a matrix server with some bridges
a syncthing instance
a TTRSS instance
another static website

and I probably forgot some things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Love this! Did you start out on the Fediverse or did you start on another and then move to your own?

I ask because I've been considering hosting my own for the family. I already have a server.

The thing holding me back is I've gotten my Mastodon and Lemmy accounts really nice with content and it's daunting to think of moving/remaking accounts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, both with Mastodon, PeerTube and Lemmy I started on my own instances. Actually not quite, I had an Mastadon account for a day somewhere before I decided that I want to use it for real and installed my own instance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

My instance (about 2-5 active users) has a running cost of about $8 NZ, on a small VPS.