Let’s say I decided that instead of blogging, I wanted to host my own Lemmy instance that contained a maximum of one (1) user– me, but allowing other users to subscribe.

To show what I’m talking about, look at how kaidomac uses Reddit as his own personal microblog, which people subscribe to.

What is the cheapest way to do this?

My mental model of Lemmy is that if I were to do this, the instance would still be caching information from other instances. This would– at least in my mine– add up in costs.

I’m a software engineer, so feel free to use technical jargon.

  • @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
    10•19 hours ago

    It’s very cheap. Hostinger’s cheapest tier ($17/mo) can easily handle a single-user Lemmy instance. You’ll have to once in a blue moon worry about the image storage growing without limit, but it’s a solvable problem.

      • db0
        8•16 hours ago

        For that kind of money you get so much much more at a budget host like contabo.

      • @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
        5•19 hours ago

        I think you would need more RAM than that. Between Rust and Node, I probably wouldn’t try to make do with less than 2 GB at a bare minimum, and 4 might be better.

      • ScrubblesEnglish
        2•18 hours ago

        I run mine on digital ocean and it’s great. Mine is slightly more powerful, but you can always start small and upgrade. It’s much harder to downgrade