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It's much cheaper and easier than you think to start your own server on here.

If you use "managed hosting", it means the hosting company does all the techy stuff like installation, upgrades and maintenance.

The cheapest Mastodon server through managed hosting costs around 8 US dollars a month.

I've done a website all about using managed hosting at:

➡️ growyourown.services

...and here's a long article about making your own Mastodon server:

➡️ growyourown.services/making-yo

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Mhartain Meanders ✅

@feditips $8??? Was that on purpose??? LOL

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An_Laetificat

@feditips nos hacemos nuestro propio servidor @DNMRULES, con casinos y con mujeres que no haya sido coaccionadas por su estado financiero a mantener relaciones?? XD

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Gytis Repečka

@feditips Just in case anyone wants to self-host Mastodon instance on Ubuntu-based server yourself - here is my full walkthough at @gytis@fedi.dev :writefreely: :ubuntu: :mastodon: fedi.dev/gytis/update-mastodon

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n3wjack :catjam:

@feditips any idea what kind of hardware you need to run a Mastodon instance?

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Jesse F Ballenger

@feditips $8 USD a month. Seems like I've heard that amount before... 🤔

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Nicola

@feditips: Thanks for the heads up on this, I have just discovered Pixelfed because of it and can now look at getting away from Instagram!

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amelia [she/they]

@feditips so mastodon for the price of elon

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Sven Tiffe :bazel:

@feditips I’ve set up my instance on Google Cloud following this tutorial (largely). justinribeiro.com/chronicle/20

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PatB_NH

@feditips Are you aware of any US based hosting for Mastadon?

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Paul Marrow 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇦🇹

@feditips these are great links. I will boost your post.

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NinaVee

@feditips

Oh, I wish. That’s the weaker side of my brain. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I’ll check it out as time goes on. Just trying to get my feet on the ground now. Thanks.

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FerdinandoSimonetti :verified:

@feditips I have a question, a big question, at least for me.
Cloudflare's R2 claims to be S3-compatible... but how the xxx can I use it with Mastodon? Is there *someone on the Internet*, as far as you know, that succeded on such a setup?

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Matt Cartwright

@feditips
so.... $8 for a blue tick or... understood. 👍🏻

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Michael

@feditips So, for $8/month I can have my own mastodon instance or I can get a blue checkmark on that other place? Seems like a rather simple choice.

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Redbeard25

@feditips WAIT $8/MONTH??? 😆

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not sam

@feditips i have no idea if this is practical or would serve any real purpose, but i kind of want to make my own server, just for myself

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Nick

@feditips I did this myself using the walkthrough on mastodon’s website: docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run and it was very straightforward. The free tier VM from oracle is more than beefy enough for the workload as well

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r1b2

@feditips I saw that but the 8$/month servers are sized for 10 users or so ?

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trotsky_vygotsky

@feditips 8 dollars to get a server going versus 8 dollars for a checkmark. Mastodon is already so much cooler

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bruceF0rte

@feditips $8/month you say? What an interesting number 🤔

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