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Is there a hypervisor that supports installing fediverse apps? (lemm.ee)

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

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Like mastadon, peertube, akomma, etc. and having them run off one server?

I've found Yunohost, runtipi, caprover, and portainer (if using docker?) as potential options. They at least support one or two fediverse apps. Has anyone had any luck with them? I just got used to the idea of using a vps hypervisor/panel to manage multiple servers or having multiple sites on one server and was wondering if there was something like that for the fediverse side.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Dokploy is the only one ive found with easy to setup multiple server management, if you can install it manually you can install it there and manage it easily, (horizontal scaling and using one panel to manage multiple vps) It just requires more technical knowledge than yunohost or runtipi.

Runtipi only has mastodon and gotosocial by default, but if those are what you need it's good, no multiserver management. Yunohost with netdata to monitor on two different vps, is what I'm going with for now, I rented a 3rd vps because I have no self control so im going to learn dokploy and hopefully just use that to control all of them eventually, if I can get them setup on dokploy its easy to migrate them later.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Currently checking out coolify, dokploy, runtipi, and cosmos. Cosmos is the only one I've found other than yunohost with lemmy in the appstore that lets you selfhost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Cosmos's lemmy app is outdated and doesn't work, yunohost is the only webclient type thing I've tried that has lemmy and works. Yunohost also has most other services like sharkey, pleroma, peertube, etc. and lets you easily install multiple services on one server with different domains. Only downside is it doesn't have multiserver management like the rest, but the rest have no app support for fediverse stuff outside of mastodon.

If you don't know how to do a lot of the docker stuff yourself, coolify, dokploy, runtipi, etc. aren't really a possibility, they don't work with ansibile, or the easy install without modifications (that idk how to do, I have yet to suceed)

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

caprover seems difficult to use, so do coollify and dokploy, might need to learn more about dockercompose, definitely doing some stuff wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

My issue with a lot of these solutions is just being new and not knowing what im doing, like outside of hetzner im not sure how to specify a seperate volume, the way these services are worded Im nervous about losing all my data by not doing the file/mount stuff correctly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I believe you are using the wrong terminology. A hypervisor is a software suite that helps manage virtual machines. You are just looking for easy ways to spin up fediverse software. Docker with docker compose is all you need, and if you need a gui for it, dockge or portainer will be usable. Having at least a little bit of networking and container knowledge is necessary as well, as there is nothing out there yet that is “one click” for running those things. I started with Lemmy, as there is Lemmy-easy-deploy that does a lot of the heavy lifting for you.

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

Forsure, the terminologys a bit confusing, I thought it was for manaaging multiple servers , think dokploy was what im looking for, will check out lemmy-easy-deploy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most of them available as containers? Why would you need any hypervisor support beyond containers?

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

I have vps from 4 different providers because of deals on lowendtalk, just wanted to monitor everything in one place at least

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

Ease of use, think dokploy was what I was looking for, want to monitor/manage with a panel or ui of somekind

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t any VPS basically work as it’s providing you the Os (usually Linux) and it’s up to you to deploy the apps you want?

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

I want to manage them like I would wordpress sites in enhance, monitor all the vps from different providers, migrate website/databaseto another server using a ui (for ease of useh if necessary, its fairly common to use something like runcloud, ploi, serveravatar, etc. outside of the fediverse stuff at least

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Mastodon*

I tried using yunohost and some others but they all sucked. I went with just using the bare podman cli

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

Last time I checked, yunohost.org worked well. It either has the services you're interested in, or it doesn't... But it's really easy to get it running. Docker containers also usually work well. Though, you need some amount of technical knowledge. And I'd recommend to use something like docker-compose and not do everything manually... If you're a beginner, maybe just try YunoHost.