where do the instances actually reside?

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• nottelling@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There are no “the Lemmy servers”, since there is no central “Lemmy” central organization to host and run such servers.

  So yeah, you can run it on whatever you can find that has available disk space, CPU cycles, and an Internet connection. Hosted VPS, colocated hardware server, raspberry pi, your gaming rig, AWS containers, whatever.

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  • DrQuint@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Brb, taping some PS3’s together.

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  • Caketaco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can’t wait for someone to run an instance on a homebrewed DS and see people asking why “lemmy.ds is down all the time??”

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    • Valmond4@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or a Samsung fridge.

      The race is open!

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• phoenix591@lemmy.phoenix591.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  lemmy can run on a decent variety of hardware, just has to be some thing left on 24/7 and exposed to the internet (be careful, the internet is a hostile place… mine was getting scanned and poked constantly until I put it behind cloudflare and then locked the firewall down to just let in cloudflare), and of course more users take more powerful hardware.

  For my personal just me instance though, I’m just running it on a Raspberry Pi 4 I run some other stuff on. Uses less than a gig of memory.

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  • dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How can I tell if my instance is being probed for security issues?

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    • spacedancer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’ll need to have some monitoring in place. Firewall logs, packet capture (i.e. wireshark), security onion, and a bunch of other security logging/monitoring tools. If you’re hosting on the cloud, your provider may have some free tools you can use (i.e. CASB).

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A pi4 has the power for it? I would assume Lemmy would chew into the drive space

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    • SatyrSack@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So you would just add another (or larger) drive. A Pi itself doesn’t even have a drive.

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    • nottelling@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The Pi4 is a pretty impressive little machine. It’ll probably host a few users, but from what I understand, it’s the federation that really starts scaling the requirements.

      Bigger problem with the Pi though is that it runs off an SDcard (by default), which have limited writes, and you’ll burn that up fast.

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    • phoenix591@lemmy.phoenix591.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It has the power to run a one user instance, I’m sure it would run into issues trying to squeeze a normal amount of people onto it, but a handful sure.

      I run everything off an external hard drive

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• Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In your heart ❤️

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the only thing that makes sense, considering everyone is a bot except me.

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• notasandwich1948@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  normally you’d rent out a server (vps) and run it on there but hosting from your house would also work. the whole idea about Lemmy is that each instance is ran on different servers by different people

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  • Mrmcmisterson@slightlyawesome.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d be hesitant to run it at your own house. While you can use a cloudflare tunnel, I’d never expose anything in my home network to the outside.

    Digital ocean is cheap, there’s another called hetzner which looks also pretty cheap. So you start will rent 1 core VPS for 5 bucks, it’s enough to run your own instance but not really enough to host any communities.

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I host a few purely personal services exposed to the net…

      But when I wanted to set up a lemmy instance I got a VPS. Too public.

      And since I had more resources than I needed I opened it for others to register too :)

      At least one user has surpassed me in number of comments (~600) so I helped the fediverse a bit

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• meldrik@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A Lemmy instance runs on a computer (server) and that server could be anything from a VPS you rent to your own computer in your home.

  My instance is hosted on my own hardware, at my home.

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• Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Did you have a look at this guide? lemm.ee/post/37715

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• DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In most cases, you’d rent a VPS (Virtual Private Server) from one of numerous providers who have data centres all over the world.

  It’s possible to host an instance at your home or whatever but residential internet connections are usually noticeably slower for people accessing them remotely.

  One of the main benefits of decentralised platforms like lemmy is that everyone has the option to host their stuff on hardware they control. Even if you’re using a VPS in a data centre somewhere, you have some level of control.

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• bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mine is on a server I rent but there’s absolutely no reason it can’t be in my house. My other federated servers are.

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• Kurt@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m running a Pixelfed instance off of an old PC in my house. Eventually I 'd like to set up a personal Lemmy instance as well.

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• 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “lemmy” itself is just a type of website we call instances, so people and organization host it themselves in the place of their choice

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• Reva@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One thing to add onto what has already been said: many internet providers do not like you setting up public services via your home network because it can drive a LOT of traffic into the neighborhood and may be a security risk. You most likely would like to rent a server from a server farm somewhere.

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