• Ripost@ripo.stEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    like many others, I hosted my own for a variety of reasons.

    • I like to tinker
    • this was a chance to do a lot of tinkering and get in on the “ground-floor” of something I think has a lot of potential
    • it gives me a bit more control over the experience, which is helpful when trying to get friends/family to give Lemmy a chance.

    As for the cost, I have several VPS’s which cost ~$40/year, so the cost is basically negligible.

      • Ripost@ripo.stEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s a company called racknerd. Been pretty good so far. It was a random black friday sale link I found when searching for discount codes. I think it was a link/post on reddit ironically enough.

      • DjMeas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Not the poster above or if I understand the difference between a VPS and an unmanaged VM, but I currently have 2 VMs running:

        • Ethernet Servers OpenVZ $25/year for 1vCPU/100GB/3GB.
        • Cloud Fanatics KVM $4.05/month for 2vCPU/60GB/2GB.

        I’ve been tinkering and selfhosting a few applications and a subsonic music server. Works great!

      • Ripost@ripo.stEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It’s a company called racknerd. Been pretty good so far. It was a random black friday sale link I found when searching for discount codes. I think it was a link/post on reddit ironically enough.