Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• carlnewton@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s distributed – you’ll need to create an instance for your own area. To do so, take a look at the getting started section: github.com/carlnewton/habitat?tab=readme-ov-file#…

  More information of what it is and how it’s planned to be in the future is in my previous blog posts:

  • …github.io/…/location-based-social-network/
  • carlnewton.github.io/posts/building-habitat/

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  • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m kind of a noob here, so forgive me if this is a silly question, but: what kind of hardware would I need to self-host a server? I’m guessing a raspberry-pi wouldn’t cut it. So would I need to rent server space?

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    • carlnewton@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was also running it on an aws ec2 t3.micro instance with no issue. I only switched to host it locally because I wanted to build for those who own home labs also, and I didn’t want to pay the ~£20 a month for the micro instance.

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    • carlnewton@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m running my instance from a refurbished Dell Optiplex 5060. It’s a very low power light weight computer. Maybe not as light-weight as a raspberry pi though, I’m not sure on that.

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      • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nice that doesn’t sound too hard

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  • WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Thanks mate. I’ll look at that tomorrow.

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