• MacFearrs@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    Big part of the concept of a fediverse is the decentralisation. It would be beneficial I think for more people to register on smaller-medium sized instances to help reduce the load on the large few

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        1 year ago

        How much does it cost to run your own instance? Do you have to pay the whole domain, server, security package with a service like cloudflare and all?

        • DrWeevilJammer@lm.rdbt.no
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          1 year ago

          Mine is running on a €2.49 Hetzner VM. I already have a domain, so Lemmy is just set up on a subdomain. I secured it myself (that sort of thing is my day job). I don’t think I’ll need to upgrade, because it’s a closed instance with only 2 users.

          All told, it would be maybe €50/year if you’re starting from nothing.

        • Thassar
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          I haven’t researched it at all but I’d be very surprised if you needed anything more than a domain name (basically free as long as you don’t go for a common TLD) and somewhere to host it (literally free if you do it on a home PC but that comes with other issues). Cloudflare and extra security are nice but aren’t necessary for something like this.