GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls
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or free oracle vps , domain is around 12$ a year but porkbun has most domains for half off first year or less, .ing is half off, .buzz is like 1$
I got into webhosting rabbithole like a month ago if it isnt obvious, those are the best deals ive found, hetzner, 5$ a month, pay by the hour, is my favorite for testing stuff for cheap if you remember to delete it, invoiced 3rd of the month
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I've always wanted to do this, but I can't afford a VPS. And everytime I look into self-hosting on hardware at home, I just get the impression that it's nearly impossible... My ISP forbids it, and even if I can evade their notice, people say having a public facing setup at home is bound to get you attacked eventually
Runtipi plus any vps, easy to setup and has gotosocial (stays more up to date) , or yunohost is easier with more options
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Do you have a credit card?
If you do, Oracle offers a shockingly generous free tier of stuff. 2 little baby EPYC VPSes, a 4-core 24gb ARM instance, and a bunch of other sundries including 10TB/month of data transfer.
You can run a LOT of fediverse services on those free Ampere instances, and even something like GoToSocial will run on the little baby EPYCs.
And to just cut off the incoming dudes: yes, Oracle is a shitty awful company with shitty awful policies run by a shitty awful billionaire, but that's no reason to not take free shit from them.
(And to the next group of people: I'm closing in on 4 years of free Oracle shit and they haven't banned me, so I'm inclined to think all those stories are incomplete and they were doing something - mining, portscanning, hosting questionable shit, torrenting stuff, running a vpn that was abused - more than "nothing".)
I think you may have sold me on this.
I'd had a look at what was on offer and this sounds like the best offer. Yes, I've heard people have problems with it but I reckon of I follow the guide and install a Fediverse instance (I'm thinking Hubzilla for a personal space so I can experiment a bit, get my rusty skills improved), it should generate enough usage to not get removed for inactivity but not too much to get me in trouble for hogging resources.
alwaysdata seems good if you only need 100Mb of storage and feedback is good.
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I've always wanted to do this, but I can't afford a VPS. And everytime I look into self-hosting on hardware at home, I just get the impression that it's nearly impossible... My ISP forbids it, and even if I can evade their notice, people say having a public facing setup at home is bound to get you attacked eventually
@MxRemy If you don't mind a man-in-the-middle Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale and alike is a good solution to ISP carrier NAT and port blocking
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I hosted it on a 1€/month vps at ionos.
An instance with multiple users actually, and it runs just great. Not a lot of space but hey, that's 12€ per year@BakedCatboy @Suoko And if that kind of tiny VPS is not enough, you can selfhost a pretty big server at home on cheap hardware and use the VPS as a reverse proxy
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