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Hey. I really like the idea of the fediverse and Lemmy and would want to know as a beginner/not so experienced regarding selfhosting what would be the best way to get started? I saw there are vps options, but don't know of I'm looking in the right direction.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

How long have you been using Contabo? Are they reliable enough?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They're good enough for hobby projects, but don't rely on them for very critical infrastructure, unless you can setup reliable high availability yourself. Multiple times they took down my DB for hours on the weekend and were unavailable to fix until Monday.

However they're one of the best power for money available. I've been using them for something like 10 years now, but I started using them way more extensively 1 year ago when I started the AI Horde

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

Different experiences I suppose. Used Contabo to host an ansible setup of Lemmy, never had a single outage for 6 months.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's down to luck. I've had two different DB contabo server hit by outages. I once had about 8 VMs going down together. If you've managed to avoid it, great. But it's a matter of time.

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