First self-hosted post!
from Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 28 Jan 20:15
https://downonthestreet.eu/post/223

Hi all!

This is my first post from my self-hosted Lemmy instance!

Thanks all you guys who gave me suggestions and help!

Hope you can see it, BTW :)

#selfhosted

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a@91268476.xyz on 28 Jan 20:23 next collapse

@Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu I can from a self-hosted sharkey instance, congrats!

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 28 Jan 20:26 collapse

That’s great!

I am really happy!

Take care friend.

Donjuanme@lemmy.world on 28 Jan 20:32 next collapse

I can see you! Near the top of my lemmy.world feed (I believe, I’m pretty new to all this as well)

Congratulations on getting your instance up!

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 28 Jan 20:39 collapse

Thanks! Amazing… Cool cool

zippythezigzag@lemm.ee on 28 Jan 20:34 next collapse

you’re coming in loud and clear from the lemm.ee instance.

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 28 Jan 20:39 collapse

Beautiful!

Really happy

GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca on 28 Jan 20:41 next collapse

Who dis?

werefreeatlast@lemmy.world on 28 Jan 21:02 collapse

New instance.

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 28 Jan 21:18 collapse

But old skin

crawancon@lemm.ee on 28 Jan 21:28 collapse

do you remember the first sunrise?

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 29 Jan 01:11 next collapse

Darmok on the ocean, Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, Darmok and Jalad on the ocean

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 05:38 collapse

Yeah that was on a Thursday afternoon, just after my knee went skying, actually a bit moldy overall, but I finally purchased my new mower.

At last, or maybe it was a sunset.

mesamunefire@lemmy.world on 28 Jan 20:42 next collapse

Nice!!

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 28 Jan 21:18 collapse

Thanks!!!

wise_pancake@lemmy.ca on 28 Jan 20:45 next collapse

You’re coming in loud and clear here in the great white North!

How was the process of setting up self hosting?

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 28 Jan 21:07 collapse

Actually much easier than I thought.

Went the docker way and only did a few errors… Took two tries to get everything in order. I am documenting the process here wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Alemmy but the page is far from complete…

edit: i just finished updating the page, it should contain more or less all the issues and solutions i encountered.

emuspawn@orbiting.observer on 28 Jan 21:00 next collapse

Receiving signal up in low earth orbit! Congrats!

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 28 Jan 21:07 collapse

Thanks man! See you up there!

hindy@mbin.lovetux.net on 28 Jan 21:09 next collapse

Hey!
This is my first post from my self-hosted Mbin instance! :-)

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 28 Jan 21:16 collapse

Is mbin still alive and well? Cool!

hindy@mbin.lovetux.net on 29 Jan 14:45 collapse

Yes Mbin is still alive and for now work as expected. I installed the instance a week ago.

Suoko@feddit.it on 28 Jan 21:15 next collapse

Your instance is installed in a container on your Ubuntu touch phone, right? 🫣

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 28 Jan 21:17 collapse

Yeah, actually I run bare-metal on a Nokia 3310… LOL

slazer2au@lemmy.world on 28 Jan 21:29 next collapse

Nice domain there mate.

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 05:43 collapse

Just something doing down right on the street, I was surprised nobody took it before me.

harsh3466@lemmy.ml on 28 Jan 21:34 next collapse

Congrats! Coming in loud and clear on lemmy.ml

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 08:29 collapse

Cool! great!

swizzlestick@lemmy.zip on 28 Jan 21:36 next collapse

Visible on lemmy.zip

Well done :)

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 06:34 collapse

Cool! I got zipped as well!

ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 28 Jan 22:19 next collapse

Works from db0, congrats

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 05:41 collapse

I couldn’t live without your 'Arrs related community!

hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org on 28 Jan 23:08 next collapse

Congrats! Works fine from sdf.org as well

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 05:41 collapse

Cool bro! Cool… Love federation.

rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Jan 23:46 next collapse

and it’s working fantastically, congratulations! I’ve been considering self-hosting for a while now but I’m afraid of the responsibility :P

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 05:44 collapse

For a very small instance, like one or two users, sohuldnt be a burden ask me Ina few months…

pp99@sh.itjust.works on 28 Jan 23:52 next collapse

congratulations!! greetings from shitjustworks

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 05:40 collapse

I simply.love your instance name… I couldn’t come with such a good one.

WolfLink@sh.itjust.works on 29 Jan 00:50 next collapse

Neat!

Any chance you could share some resources on how you did it? I’d kinda like to give it a try…

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 05:42 collapse

I will finish writing that on my wiki today at wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Alemmy

edit: page done!

NudeNewt@lemm.ee on 29 Jan 08:59 collapse

I think I love you.

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 10:21 collapse

If that would be so simple… Are you a billionaire? In that case, it would make things MUCH easier… :) Otherwise my wife might want a word…

fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com on 29 Jan 02:54 next collapse

My instance of one now federates with your instance of one.

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 05:39 collapse

So it’s true after all that 1+1=11

fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com on 29 Jan 12:20 collapse

Yes and

jeena@piefed.jeena.net on 29 Jan 03:50 next collapse

Nice work, although for single user instances I would suggest using PieFed.

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 05:43 collapse

Care to elaborate? Interesting

jeena@piefed.jeena.net on 29 Jan 10:22 collapse

I also started with Lemmy on a small VPS where I run a lot of other services for me and my family. Every update of Lemmy somehow needed more and more resources to run, so many in fact that it would overload my small VPS. I think it is because Lemmy is designed to be run for å huge amount of users, so it has quite a overhead at first just to be able to handle very many users later.

And because I didn't want to upgrade my server and make it more expensive, I decided to try PieFed which has from the start been concentrating on having a small footprint on the server.

And that played off emensly, not only was I able to keep running on a small VPS for cheap, but I also found an amazingly open developer community around PieFed on Matrix.

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 10:25 collapse

Thank you, might take a look into it as well, but for the time being Lemmy seems to be working fine on my home server (not an underpowered VPS indeed, but not an enterprise-grade server either)

ikidd@lemmy.world on 29 Jan 04:25 next collapse

7-3s

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 06:33 collapse

=4

kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 29 Jan 05:42 next collapse

I can see you from Blahaj :3

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 05:44 collapse

Glad that works mate! I like you guys and the topics brought along by your instance.

Illecors@lemmy.cafe on 29 Jan 07:53 next collapse

Lemmy.cafe checking in

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 08:24 collapse

Cool! I am just having a coffee myself!

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Jan 08:58 next collapse

Welcome, don’t forget to claim and tag yourself on fediseer. Make sure you provide the target instance to guarantee for you when soliciting a guarantee. They will get a PM ;)

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 10:23 collapse

will do immediately! Thanks!

Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com on 29 Jan 10:42 next collapse

Lemmynsfw here, we see you. Do you, errr, see us?

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 10:46 collapse

I do! I like your instance very much (i like all instances actually… but some how yours has that little extra spicy, ykwim)

shaserlark@sh.itjust.works on 29 Jan 12:33 next collapse

Shit just works as usual

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works on 29 Jan 14:51 collapse

Can confirm. I’d host my own, but I’m lazy and The Dude hasn’t given me a reason to.

Sunny@slrpnk.net on 29 Jan 13:17 next collapse

Curios about how much space is required for hosting a personal Lemmy instance? Is this something you know, if it’s not too much I would be interested in hosting myself!

teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu on 29 Jan 15:10 next collapse

I think my instance has been growing at about 30 GB a year. I think if you set it up to not rehost the pictures, you can keep the whole thing in the handful of GB range.

Sunny@slrpnk.net on 29 Jan 20:49 collapse

Oh thats a lot less than i had imagined actually and very neat that u can turn of re-hosting pictures! Putting this on my to-do list!

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 31 Jan 13:57 collapse

After a few days my one use instance is globbing up 190mb of disk space. I am subscribed to quite a few communities too.

Valeria@feddit.kyiv.ua on 29 Jan 15:50 next collapse

Spotted from feddit.ua!

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 20:07 collapse

Hi amico Ukrainian lemmer! Glad to see you here.

Allero@lemmy.today on 29 Jan 16:08 next collapse

Confirmed, can see it from lemmy.today!

Congrats!

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 29 Jan 20:04 collapse

I hope it will be seen also from Lemmy.tomorrow! (Pun intended)

sol6_vi@lemmy.world on 29 Jan 21:13 collapse

Heyo! I just set up a full suite of fediverse nonsense over at MakrArmy.io! Congrats!

Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu on 30 Jan 06:54 collapse

Hear you loud and clear!