How much time and money would it take to set up and maintain a server similar to disroot.org, offering the same services, for a group of ten people?

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• shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If you want it done Fast and Good, it will not be done Cheap.

  If you want it done Fast and Cheap, it will not be done Good.

  If you want it done Good and Cheap, it will not be done Fast.

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  • bigboitricky@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve got 5 bones and 7 minutes make it work or else get the Gulag treatment

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    • shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Fast and cheap it is.

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• WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some of those services are pretty easy to set up, some might be more complicated. You’d have to look around for open source projects for those services and see if you can find ones you like. It will take more time to get it initially set up than to maintain, but expect to fix something that breaks every once in a while.

  As for cost, probably like a few hundred to a thousand USD can get a reasonable computer for this. You don’t need a GPU, but want a decent CPU, plenty of RAM, and a LOT of storage. Look for companies auctioning off old servers.

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  • yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Looks like most of their services are also foss. Says their cloud service is powered by nextcloud, and pad is powered by Etherpad, upload by Lufi, etc. So, OP could probably just self-host most of these really easily. Hardest one would probably be email. That’s a whole 'nother beast for most. Especially since most residential IPs are blacklisted. You almoat always need to cloud-host that.

    My cloud-hosting knowledge is a bit dated, bit I bet there are webhosting places that do the email bit for you, you juat pay the monthly fee to use their auto-gen instance of mailcow or whatever.

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For email, you just pay for a host that will let you use your own domain. It’s usually a lot cheaper than getting a static IP and you can easily switch hosts while keeping your email address.

      It’s not really even worth attempting to self host your own outbound email these days. It’s a lot of work getting the big email providers to accept your email and if someone has ever sent spam from your IP address, you are pretty much screwed.

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• oeuf@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You can easily install most of those services on YUNOhost - in fact I have a bunch of them running on a cheap VPS. All open source. It even comes with email and XMPP out of the box. I had no hosting experience beforehand and I rarely have to touch it these days. I would want more resources if I had 10 people using the whole Nextcloud suite every day but if you wanted to go the VPS route I’m sure you could easily do it for less than €5/month/person. You can run it on your own hardware as well.

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  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Came here to say pretty much the same thing. I basically already host “disroot” services for myself.

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