Is there a way I can easily set up my own federated instance for free or no?
I want to join the Fediverse. I don’t have a computer or anything to make something like a Lemmy instance, and I found that NodeBB will easily allow you to make a forum quickly, but I have to pay to do so. Should I just pay when I can or is there a free way to make a federated instance on a software?
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in reply to catloaf • • •I use Oracle fo No Lastname Needed, and it works well (although I have out grown the free tier), but I would NOT recommend them for a newbie to hosting as it's a very complex eco-system compared to just a cheap VPS
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in reply to Craig (He/Him) • • •The question isnt easy to answer as you dont need an instance to participate. It is far better if you join an instance and spare yourself the hassle of admin and/or mod work. If you absoluteky want to have a community which you can build and mod, you can do that on any instance. If you think you can provide something that nobody else can then you could open an instance. But in that case i suggest finding people to do this with because it is a large project.
And only after all those considerations, you should think of the tech aspect. You can get a vps for 10 bucks a month and host lemmy on it, probably amongst other things. But i would probably not do it if youre not really curious about server hosting stuff. Managed hosting (which is the offer you mentioned) is another idea but it isnt worth it imo. Rarely will someone really have the need to use that and then the company provoding needs to make money so you will lose.
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in reply to Craig (He/Him) • • •Oracle has a generous free server offering. You will need to trust Oracle not to turn off your server because a business customer needs it, though. Availability of their good free tier also fluctuates and you need to figure out their weird IP/firewall/security config.
You need a domain name to effectively federate, too. There are free options available for those too, but they're not very reliable.
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in reply to Craig (He/Him) • • •Yunohost is pretty easy all things considered.
Most of my services are on the equivalent of a raspberry pi. But it's not really for scale, just for fun.
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