Simple Social Network

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Starting your own server on the Fediverse is easier and cheaper than you think.

You don't need technical knowledge, as you can use a managed hosting company. You pay them a monthly fee and they do all the techy stuff, including hosting, installation, upgrades, maintenance etc completely behind the scenes.

The price of a small Mastodon server with a managed hosting company starts from 6 euros a month. You can also make PixelFed, PeerTube, FunkWhale, BookWyrm or WriteFreely servers through managed hosting.

I've done a website aimed at non-technical people which is all about using managed hosting companies to create your own Fediverse servers and personal clouds. The site is at:

➡️ https://growyourown.services

The Fediverse section is at:

➡️ https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network

You can also follow the site's account at @homegrown

#Fediverse #SelfHosting #ManagedHosting #ActivityPub #GrowYourOwn

Ivar Hill

@feditips What a great website! Easy to understand and really inspiring :)

Stefan Scholl

@feditips A little bit of knowledge is necessary. You need to know that your Local and Federated timeline will be very empty. ;-)

JoshuaDevOps

@feditips @homegrown good idea!

undefined Kaede :heart_bi: :heart_ace: :anya_shocked: :ReiChoccyMilk:

@feditips @homegrown
I took a look on managed hosting options. for $6 you get an instance with 'low federation capacity'
sounds not-so-good, idk what it exactly means, maybe like the instance my friend managed and recently gave up, it was 'losing its federation' as local users said, like people from other instances couldn't follow them, they couldn't follow people from other instances, it was just endless 'follow request sent' even for non-locked profiles? it kinda kills the whole idea
might be okay if you're only going to communicate with your circle of those 5 people on your owned instance but... isn't it kinda killing the whole idea of the Fediverse?

DM me the word "bread"

@feditips @homegrown

Most managed hosters don't even encrypt your data. It's just running in some unencrypted VM on some unencrypted server in some large Datacenter where your managed hosters has rented servers.

You, and only you should always have the key to your data when hosting your own stuff. Managed hosting usually doesn't allow that, although I'd be happy to be proven wrong.