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Are they all gathered in one place somewhere or does it all need to be found case by case? Intrested in hosting a mastadon, pixelfed, and peertube instance. What are the vps requiremnts? I do like the idea of hosting all my own posts/comments, etc.

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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was just looking into this and going to post a similar question to the community. I saw a post recently about Friendica and thought that and Pixelfed might be things I’d be interested in self-hosting my own accounts, since I’d probably want those to be things I keep followers-only and connect only with people I know IRL. I’ve only used shared web hosting before and Friendica looked straightforward enough, but Pixelfed seemed much more involved. I’ve never done anything with a VPS before; I think I could do it but if anything went wrong I might be in trouble. Would that be an okay starting point or is that jumping in the deep end? I assume I’d be able to host both on the same VPS?

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 2 points 1 week ago

You can hist both on the same VPS without problems.

But hosting things is kind of involved, especially installing and updating. You at least need Linux knowledge to be able to do it.

An alternative seems to be https://yunohost.org/ which takes over most of the work for you, but I have never tried it myself.