I am a software developer by craft and a linux system admin by hobby. I cannot commit to moderating and managing my own instance, but I would be glad to help someone with the technical aspects.
The most common complaint I saw in Reddit and here about switching to Lemmy is the difficulty of setting it up, so I thought I would help bridge this gap.
While I have never hosted my own instance before, I already checked the setup guide and it looks pretty simple to me, so I am confident I can do it. Please feel free to comment or DM.
It would be great if you can comment general questions. I can then respond to you here and maybe others will see it and know how to host their own instances too.
Anyone know if setting up an instance via a shared Hostgator server is possible? I already pay for a plan for my personal site so wondered if I could add on a new domain plus a partition to it and take advantage to make my own instance for posting and browsing myself.
Not familiar with Hostgator. Can you provide more details?
It’s a web hosting service. The plan I have is the baby plan shared hosting on this link.
But from looking more myself, not sure if this would work. I think I’d need a VPS to actually install and build Lemmy on.
You’ll need to be able to ssh into the server.
yes you would need a VPS. The only way to use lemmy with hostgator is if they add lemmy to their services like they do with wordpress for example.