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Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Have you looked into the process of actually spinning up your own Mastodon instance? It’s not exactly the good old days of throwing together a LAMP box and installing PHPBB on it.

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Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- IHeartBadCode@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I appreciate your commitment to this meme. I don't exactly agree with you, but hilarious nonetheless.
  
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Zak@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve done it and it’s not a whole lot harder than that. The additional steps are:

Install dependencies - exact commands are provided in the instructions for Debian-based systems

Create a more complex web server configuration file - for which a template is provided

Set up systemd services to start it at boot - templates are provided

It is harder than managed hosting where you might only need to create a database user in a web control panel and upload files for PHPBB, but there’s managed hosting available for Mastodon.
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- Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Doesn’t it require a whole mess of Docker instances and some kind of orchestrator to host? Or is it easier to stand up on a single server now? I haven’t looked into it in a year or so.
  
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  - Zak@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It does not. I set mine up more than a year ago and followed these instructions.
    
    People already familiar with Ruby on Rails will not find any surprises there; Mastodon’s hosting requirements are typical of a Rails app.
    
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- tal@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  but there’s managed hosting available for Mastodon.
  
  FWIW, I recall when elestio announced that they were offering managed hosting for kbin, and that they already did managed hosting of lemmy instances, and and I’m sure that there is managed hosting for at least lemmy available elsewhere.
  
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