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Beehaw is hosted on DigitalOcean, not sure what price range at this point as I know it's been upgraded recently. It's really easy to spin up one of their "droplets" and get started on a project.
I just got a 14$ droplet with 1 vCPU and 2 gigs of ram with weekly backups. I like their interface and have been happy with it overall so far. Hoping to start up my own lemmy instance for learning purposes, though a bit daunting as apparently the docker instructions are incomplete.
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Well I'm glad to hear it's working properly. Will give it a go soon. My only concern is whether I can use traefik with it rather than/with nginx. Can they work together?
I've gotten much more comfortable with traefik and would like to use it with my instance. I already default to using compose for my projects so no worries there.
apparently, and I know next to nothing about this, you can use an automated option via Ansible.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible
I also know pretty much nothing about ansible. And while that could be a learning opportunity in itself, I'd like to challenge myself to get it running through docker. It would be one of the more complex things I've set up.
Sounds pretty fun! I have a spare laptop running Linux Mint. I would like to try running my own instance and sharing it with a few users. Below are the specs. Do you think it will be powerful enough, and if so, how many users would it be able to handle?
Dell Inspiron 15-5000
CPU: Intel Core i5-5200U, 2 cores, 4 threads
RAM: 8GB
Storage: SanDisk SSD Plus 1TB
This is really just a guess, but I don't see why you wouldn't be able to run an instance with a handful of users on that machine. Just don't expect too much.