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submitted 10 months ago by Jumper775@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

I am considering creating my own lemmy instance as my current instance (lemmy.world) is often down, and I enjoy this kind of a project. That being said I haven’t been able to find any resources on hw needed for this? If I have a raspberry pi 4b 8g with 128gb is that enough for just me using it? Do I need to pay for a cloud server to host it? How can federation work if I only have <10 users tops? Anything else I might need to know?

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[-] max@lemmy.fish 4 points 10 months ago

I was originally going to host my instance on my own hardware but decided to use a $6/mo droplet on DigitalOcean. Seems to work well enough for me and my LCS bot. Picked up a domain off Google Domains for $20/year or so. It's been a fun project and I've learned a lot along the way.

this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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