Fediverse is great, I can post stuff here now as it’s down. xD
Edit: damn, they’re already back up this quick
Here was the archive: https://archive.ph/RAZ5Q
Fediverse is great, I can post stuff here now as it’s down. xD
Edit: damn, they’re already back up this quick
Here was the archive: https://archive.ph/RAZ5Q
.world has on-“prem” servers? Noice
So does .CA
It’s one of the advantages of the being a lot of sys admins and Linux users in this community.
You can run Lemmy pretty comfortably on used servers.
I’m running mine on a ~$33/year VPS at GreenCloudVPS. It’s a small instance (just me) but it federates with all the major instances which means it still does a bunch of work (since it has to handle incoming posts and comments from federated servers). It’s a decently powerful VPS with an AMD EPYC Milan CPU, 10GB RAM, and 100GB NVMe storage.
For a medium-sized instance, I imagine you could get pretty far with a single <$100/month dedicated server from Hetzner or a similar provider.
That seems quite cheap, was it a discount? I can’t find a 33$ yearly plan on their website
Yeah, a Black Friday sale.
They do have some deals always available, but the specs aren’t as good as the Black Friday ones: https://greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale
RackNerd also have some deals that are always available on their site. .
Oh, that’s still very cool, thanks!
Maybe it changed, but IIRC they are using Hetzner
https://lemmy.world/comment/65982
Their infrastructure expenses seem to also suggest VPS
https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld/transactions?kind=EXPENSE
I am under the impression it’s dedicated hardware not a VPS, but it’s leased from Hetzner they don’t maintain the hardware themselves.
Ah, could be!