Hi, I want to host a private Lemmy server under example.com mostly to be used without association (federation) with other Lemmy servers - this is due to the nature of the Lemmy server. It is going to be used only by people from a specific country, so in its initial phase, I am pretty sure these people won’t care about any other servers not in this country’s language. Anyway, that’s besides the point.

The thing is I already have a Hetzner instance where I have set up an NGINX server hosting a couple of PHP websites - Wordpress and Mybb forum using mariaDB database and php 8.1.

The instance is running Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS - which method of installing Lemmy would make sense? Docker, Ansible, or from scratch, as it is documented here https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html ?

I just do not want to disturb my currently installed websites on this server.

Any recommendations?

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    22 hours ago

    If you want it to not affect other systems, a container is the obvious choice.

    • afcika@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      If I did not have any constraints, which method would be the best choice? I want to make upgrades as painless as possible as I plan to follow releases to stay up to date.