First off, I’m totally new here (Reddit refugee).
But I guess we will see an endless September after July 1st.
How can we (I?) create an “onboarding” server? or in my case: a lemmy server for (people interested in) programmimg.
Let’s say I have some (pick one — or all):
- digital ocean droplet (vps)
- herzner vps
- k8s cluster
- …you get the point
How do I get my foo.bar Lemmy server running?
- is there a
docker-compose.ymlor helm chart to get the services running on my droplet/cluster? - how do i connect my server to other lemmy servers in the fediverse?
- are moderation tools available, or do i have to build them on my own? (are there existing repos i can join, to prevent reinventing the wheel)
- is there documentation available for that? If not: on what repo can I make pull requests for improving the docs? (i like writing my documentation in markdown + “material for mkdocs” that generates the github/gitlab/whatever pages)
thanks in advance :thumbs-up:
The documentation should answer most of your questions.
Does it affect if I run lemmy inside a tailscale machine with all inbound ports closed?
It needs to receive incoming http/websocket requests.
Got it. Based on the documentation and the caddy example it only needs ports 80 and 8536, correct?
I installed mine using the instructions here. I did run in to an issue with docker-compose, for which I submitted this pull request (assuming that PR is not merged by the time you clone the repo).
They recommend the Ansible setup found here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible
Their main docs site does have instructions for running via docker(-compose), but they seem to be pretty broken right now.
I’m running Lemmy and Authentik (authentication broker for my Mastodon instance) on one of the $14/month AMD premium droplets and it’s working fine. (1vCPU 2Gb RAM). Though I’m the only user currently and my instance has only been up for about an hour lol.
There’s official documentation for how to get up and running quickly using Docker here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html
I used that as a reference for my own server’s setup (which is heavily modified appropriately for my own environment).
I just set up my instance using the Ansible playbook. It takes a few manual configuration steps, and the rest is automatic provided you can SSH into the server and get root access.
I launched mine using the lemmy-ansible repo: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible It’s quite straight forward to follow and works out of the box without much effort required, good luck!
Hi! First comment on Lemmy (or any social media.) I run bubblesthebunny.com off this repo: https://github.com/BubblesTheBunny/lemmy
It requires Digital Ocean and Cloudflare, but it works pretty well. I use a pretty small VM though, so if you’re looking for something that can handle 1000s of users you’ll need to modify it slightly.
I yoinked a ton from the https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible repo, so if you want to roll your own that’s a good place to start.
Welcome, fellow refugee. I’m only lurking in these topics out of interest, I’m not in a position to host.
But you might find these communities interesting:
They are all about self hosting in general, not self hosting lemmy specifically. But lemmy is a topic among others. The last comm seems to be about specifically self hosting lemmy, but has no content (yet) from my point of view. Which I find sad, as I’m also mostly interested in self hosting lemmy as a topic.
There is a docker install guide in the docs.
Officially https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html
There is also this https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy/tree/main
I rolled my own docker-compose.yml because I host other services using Caddy as well
Does anybody know the hardware requirements? A RaspberryPi, some small VPS with 1 cpu and 1gb ram, or 4 core vps with 16 gb ram? Is the traffic cache-able by cloudflare?
In my other comment I mentioned some specs… not sure what it’s like on the larger instances, but probably not too bad.
Not sure if it can be cached by Cloudflare… probably depends on what you want to cache.
Not sure if it can be cached by Cloudflare
Every time I’ve turned on caching on my instance, it goes into a redirect loop and doesn’t connect. I’ve tried searching everywhere to see if it’s just something I’ve done wrong (which is how I found this comment) but can’t find any tutorials or anything on caching with cloudflare on lemmy. I’m guessing it’s just not possible.
Have a look here for information in running a Lemmy instance.
