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   • Grow Your Own Services 🌱

   Starting your own server on the Fediverse is easier and cheaper than you think.

   You don't need technical knowledge, as you can use a managed hosting company. You pay them a monthly fee and they do all the techy stuff, including hosting, installation, upgrades, maintenance etc completely behind the scenes.

   The price of a small Mastodon server with a managed hosting company starts from 6 euros a month. You can also make PixelFed, PeerTube, FunkWhale, BookWyrm or WriteFreely servers through managed hosting.

   I've done a website aimed at non-technical people which is all about using managed hosting companies to create your own Fediverse servers and personal clouds. The site is at:

   ➡️ https://growyourown.services

   The Fediverse section is at:

   ➡️ https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network

   You can also follow the site's account at @homegrown

   #Fediverse #SelfHosting #ManagedHosting #ActivityPub #GrowYourOwn

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     • Stefan Scholl

     @Stefan_S_from_H

     True, I am slightly simplifying. But the tech knowledge needed is similar to an ordinary end user.

     You don't need to be a system administrator to use managed hosting. There are no command lines or FTP or anything like that.

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     @feditips A little bit of knowledge is necessary. You need to know that your Local and Federated timeline will be very empty. ;-)

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     • Ivar Hill

     @ivarhill

     Thanks :) I hope it is useful!

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     Ivar Hill (ivarhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Oct-2022 03:27:38 JST Ivar Hill

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     @feditips What a great website! Easy to understand and really inspiring :)

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     • Grow Your Own Services 🌱
     • undefined Kaede :heart_bi: :heart_ace: :anya_shocked:

     @kaedechan

     I use that exact plan from that provider for @homegrown and it works absolutely fine, never seen any problems at all. I have over a thousand followers and none of them have reported any problems either.

     I set up the account when I set up the website, so that I'd be experiencing managed hosting by using it myself.

     I think the "low federation" refers to the number of processing threads. If you do lots of posts in a short time, it can overwhelm the thread capacity and take time for it to catch up with all the updates.

     I've never run into problems with threads though.

     It really depends on an individual's needs. If you need more threads, you can go for a higher priced plan, or chat about it with the person who runs the service.

     The person who runs the service is really good about this, you can DM or email and they'll give a full explanation as well as offering options. These are small companies that offer the services, so it's much easier to reach people in charge.

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     • Grow Your Own Services 🌱
     @feditips @homegrown
     I took a look on managed hosting options. for $6 you get an instance with 'low federation capacity'
     sounds not-so-good, idk what it exactly means, maybe like the instance my friend managed and recently gave up, it was 'losing its federation' as local users said, like people from other instances couldn't follow them, they couldn't follow people from other instances, it was just endless 'follow request sent' even for non-locked profiles? it kinda kills the whole idea
     might be okay if you're only going to communicate with your circle of those 5 people on your owned instance but... isn't it kinda killing the whole idea of the Fediverse?
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     • Grow Your Own Services 🌱

     @lerk @homegrown

     It depends what kind of instance software you're running, and what your threat model is.

     Obviously if there's sensitive personal data then that should only be stored on e2ee systems, but most of what people do on social media isn't sensitive personal data.

     I've gone through all the reasons for having your own server here, and most of these aren't linked to encryption:

     https://growyourown.services/why-growing-your-own-services-is-a-good-idea/

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     • Grow Your Own Services 🌱

     @feditips @homegrown

     Most managed hosters don't even encrypt your data. It's just running in some unencrypted VM on some unencrypted server in some large Datacenter where your managed hosters has rented servers.

     You, and only you should always have the key to your data when hosting your own stuff. Managed hosting usually doesn't allow that, although I'd be happy to be proven wrong.