Guides for hosting sites in Fediverse and federating?
Are they all gathered in one place somewhere or does it all need to be found case by case? Intrested in hosting a mastadon, pixelfed, and peertube instance. What are the vps requiremnts? I do like the idea of hosting all my own posts/comments, etc.
Every software has its own documentation, so you need to look there because they are made with different technologies so that the installation process is different.
You can start with the smallest VPS, mastadon, pixelfed and peertube should work well enough on it. Once you want Lemmy you will need to expand it, but that's normally quite easy with VPS providers, without the need of reinstalling.
Oh and as a future PeerTube admin, may I interest you in my channel? https://tube.jeena.net/c/peertube_admin_chronicles/videos
I was just looking into this and going to post a similar question to the community. I saw a post recently about Friendica and thought that and Pixelfed might be things I’d be interested in self-hosting my own accounts, since I’d probably want those to be things I keep followers-only and connect only with people I know IRL. I’ve only used shared web hosting before and Friendica looked straightforward enough, but Pixelfed seemed much more involved. I’ve never done anything with a VPS before; I think I could do it but if anything went wrong I might be in trouble. Would that be an okay starting point or is that jumping in the deep end? I assume I’d be able to host both on the same VPS?
You can hist both on the same VPS without problems.
But hosting things is kind of involved, especially installing and updating. You at least need Linux knowledge to be able to do it.
An alternative seems to be https://yunohost.org/ which takes over most of the work for you, but I have never tried it myself.
How small do you mean by smallest like a 2 core 2gb 5$ a month one from hetzner? Or the even smaller ones some providers give?
Oof, I wish there was a nice unified way or a common pipeline to install fediverse services.
I began looking into mastodon (a Perl-based app), but realised that Gotosocial (a Go based application) was better suited to my needs as I could run that off a Raspberry Pi 2 zero. I can use it exactly like Mastodon, meet and interact with folks on Mastodon, but just through another service. For all practical purposes, I find no difference in the experience between the two (I have a mastodon account on the general server as well).
As another commenter said, each service comes with its own technology and innovation (some strive to be minimal, while others try to be feature rich). You have to pick and choose per your needs.
To host all three, you might need a decent server with 16 /32 GB RAM and 2TB drives; particularly if you're going to host a lot of high quality videos.
For mastodon, check out Masto.host as it makes the setup a whole lot easier.
Forsure I'm looking at massivegrid and a few other options at lowendtalk, some insanely solid deals if you comment to double the ram they give you lol
mgs a scam btw littlecreek looks good tho
I've had good luck with yunohost if you want an all in one solution. But you can also do the same with some docker containers.