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Options for cloud hosted Lemmy server? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel like this is at least tangentially connected to self hosting, so I'm asking here. I'm interested in finding a cloud provider to host my own Lemmy server (similar to what Masto.host does with Mastodon). I've been looking around for all the different options available, and I haven't found many. Communick.com and elest.io are the ones I've found. I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with either of these, or if anyone has any other recommendations to consider.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I saw a post earlier on how someone was using the free hosting in Oracle to run their instance, I made an account but haven't gotten it setup

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

I'm running mine on one but be careful: Oracle can stop your instance or ban you without a reason any time. They will just tell you your "trial" is over.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I’m hosting on DigitalOcean and buy the URL somewhere else (GoDaddy in my case). If DO becomes to expensive under load I’ll move to AWS. Have done this with a few other projects the same way: start out and tinker, finding a good setup on DO and move to AWS for price efficiency.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I was planning on trying out elest.io, which is the only one I’ve seen

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have tried elest.io. You get a 7 day (up to $20) trial after adding a credit card.

Setup is easy and you get a running instance in minutes. Setting up custom domain isn't as straight forward for a managed service though.

The cheapest server costs about $10 per month.

Recommended if you're looking for a managed solution and don't wanna bother with setting it up yourself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I’m running mine on a t3.small AWS EC2 instance. Added an extra drive for storage. Haven’t setup backups or anything yet as it’s just me testing for fun. I’ll probably just have it backup to S3 (single region infrequent access) a few times a day if I decide to stick with it. Less than $10/month right now which is fine with me for now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I just set one up over the weekend using a VPS from cloudfanatic.net and a domain through cloudflare. Haven't opened it up to the public yet so I can't say how it would hold up for multiple users but I've only invested about $40 for a year of service so it's not a major hardship if it doesn't work out.

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