So we have an old computer lying around and I wanna put it to good use. It’s an Apple laptop from like 2016. I don’t have the money for a VPS as I have no job, I’ve had trouble with cards in the past, and I only have a few dollars on my gift cards. I was thinking I could use just the computer and have it run 24/7 despite being inefficient, potentially, but what about hosting it on my own network and the CSAM/weird content issues that I have to face?
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- neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 months
Hosting does not attract CSAM on its own. Anonymous uploads do. Only host services that you find useful yourself, and maybe sharing it with friends, and that’s a reasonably safe start.
- 3 months
Tusen takk, kompis! I wanna run a Lemmy server, do you think I can still do it with just a bare computer and no VPS?
- neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 months
I don’t have experience with hosting lemmy specifically, but from what I hear it doesn’t require much other than being a bit RAM-hungry. Add some swap space, use the instance primarily for yourself, and you should be good.
- SteveTech@aussie.zoneEnglish3 months
Haha I love how this has progressed, from ‘What free VPS?’ then ‘Free VPS doesn’t work’ and now we’re at ‘What can I do without a VPS?’.
Anyway, I was self hosting from home well before I started playing with VPSs, so it’s a good way to get started before having to spend money. And I still self host most of my infrastructure just because I prefer upfront costs to subscriptions.
Edit: I meant to add if you don’t have a publicly routable IP or don’t want to port forward, you can use something like Cloudflare Tunnels to proxy everything through their servers.
- 3 months
It’s not that inneficient, but you still need a way to get a public IP. I know they are free services for it. Look at tailscale maybe?
- solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish3 months
What is going on with you? Anyway, if you want to try self-hosting on a VPS, make an account on lowendspirit.com and hang out there for a while. There are lots of offers for free or ridiculously cheap VPS there. Like this starts at 25 cents per month ($3 per year):
Open a thread there saying what you’re trying to do, and ask for hosting and for technical help if you need that.
- Nephalis@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish3 months
Just start with what is available to you. But first sort your aims.
Do you wanna learn or do you want to simply have services available?
- stratself@lemdro.idEnglish3 months
- Why do you want your own Lemmy instance? Can’t you just create a community on another instance?
- May not be the answer you want, consider exposing your laptop’s service(s) via Cloudflare Tunnels. That’s the best way if you don’t have an exposable public IP.
- Lemmy and other services will make outbound requests and leak your residential IP. If this is a problem for you, you should proxy outbound traffic on the machine
- Have you considered Oracle but in another region? Or do they geo-restrict you?
- For questionable content, look onto moderation tooling for Lemmy. Keep watch on your media folder(s) regularly and delete offensive ones
- 3 months
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters CSAM Child Sexual Abuse Material IP Internet Protocol VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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