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Is it fairly cheap to host your own personal, single-user Lemmy instance? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Moc@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Let's say I decided that instead of blogging, I wanted to host my own Lemmy instance that contained a maximum of one (1) user– me, but allowing other users to subscribe.

To show what I'm talking about, look at how kaidomac uses Reddit as his own personal microblog, which people subscribe to.

What is the cheapest way to do this?

My mental model of Lemmy is that if I were to do this, the instance would still be caching information from other instances. This would– at least in my mine– add up in costs.

I'm a software engineer, so feel free to use technical jargon.

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 month ago (24 children)

Selfhosting is basically free. You already have an unmetered Internet connection, and sourcing some hardware to run Lemmy would also be super easy.

The “problem” is that setting Lemmy up is quite annoying and complex and involves multiple docker containers and volumes and networks. There are various installation scripts but it is still a complete mess.

It would also result in a metric shit-ton of traffic and data storage.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (7 children)

The problem for me is I believe you need to open your network firewall for Lemmy and other federated services to work right?

Not really a fan of opening up more attack surface on my home network

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It also works through reverse proxies.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Is that not essentially the same issue as opening your firewall though? You're still taking requests from outside your network into your network without any authentication until they actually hit the server

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