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Does "Selfhosted" mean you actually have a server at home? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm trying to better understand hosting a Lemmy Instance. Lurking discussions it seems like some people are hosting from the Cloud or VPS. My understanding is that it's better to futureproof by running your own home server so that you have the data and the top most control of hardware, software etc. My understanding is that by hosting an instance via Cloud or VPS you are offloading the data / information to a 3rd party.

Are people actually running their own actual self-hosted servers from home? Do you have any recommended guides on running a Lemmy Instance?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All too slow! My new job is taking a fair share of time, but I project getting back on track in a month or so. But I already have my Lemmy server, and I'm building a little "slow game" multiplayer with action points in python, so I'm not totally exhausted :-)

So how're you doing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah life tends to get in the way of hobbies like that.. as for me, I started the Linux foundation certified systems administrator course recently but only got a little into before my health went down and a few other things, but hopefully can get back into it soon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So how're you doing? Are you on sick leave (IDK where you live but lots of Americans(and lots of Americans on Lemmy) have huge problems with health problems, I mean over the problem itself)? A cheap Linux box can provide plenty of amusement if you like those kind of things!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm from Australia and on disability pension. And yeah, I have 3 Linux boxes to play with haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago