I self-hosted an instance a when I got here a few days ago. The server costs me the same whether I use it or not, so I’d like to let as many people sign up as I can. I had a few people sign up already before join-lemmy.org was changed to require 5 monthly active users, but now my instance isn’t shown there because it’s below the limit.

Any idea on how to attract a dozen or so users so that I can show up on the main join-lemmy page again?

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    1 year ago

    What provider are you using to host? I’ve got a hostgator shared plan for a personal site but wasn’t sure if I’d specifically need a VPS to do it.

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      1 year ago

      I’m using cloudzy VPS. It’s cheap but realized that smtp ports are blocked today… So gotta look into what to do about that if I want to use this instance beyond a private one. Email would be required for forgot passwords, registrations, etc…