Wondering if I’m bad at using the search or if there is only a selfhosting community with a lot of subs?
Check the sidebar.
It’s about self-hostable alternatives to closed online software. It doesn’t say anywhere that the hardware has to be in your own home, just that it is about self-hostable software.
Similarly, !selfhosting@slrpnk.net is about self-hosting services, the hardware part is (even with the slrpnk folk) only a prefetence.
So feel free to discuss hosting your own services on a VPS here
I assume a lot of people interested in selfhosting also enjoy the hardware side of things, making it more prominent than VPS.
Thanks, good to know alternatives to Lemmy.world!
Nothing against .world, but variety and alternatives are the gist of lemmy.
As others have mentioned, VPSes (and rented dedicated servers) count as self-hosted. In many situations, a VPS can make more sense than a home server:
- Better internet connection - a lot of hosts have 40Gbps connections now, and it’s a data center grade connection with a lower contention ratio.
- Cheaper upfront - no initial purchase cost.
- Depending on electricity prices, it can be cheaper over the long run too, especially with a $20-40/year one (see LowEndTalk, GreenCloudVPS Budget KVM, RackNerd specials, etc). That’s the case for me in California - just the electricity for my home server costs more than some of my VPSes.
- Usually better hardware than you’d have at home - often AMD EPYC or modern Xeons (not a 10 year old E3 or E5), enterprise NVMe SSDs, etc.
Definitely, just was unsure if self hosting means doing the hosting yourself or hosting for yourself, if that makes sense, if its either or thats nice
Discussions about hosting on your hardware is more likely to be discussed as “homelab”.
Assuming you mean hosting stuff on a VPS or similar, I think the Lemmy selfhosting communities consider that also self hosting on some level.
If you more meant for commercial hosting, there’s no harm in asking, I’d wager a fair few people subscribed probably work in the industry.
If you meant the behind the scenes stuff of running a hosting provider, you might have a little less luck, but you never know
I’d be interested in a community for commercial sysadmin type stuff, but the ones I’ve seen are all pretty dead. I am one of those people that work in the industry.
community for commercial sysadmin type stuff, but the ones I’ve seen are all pretty dead Why not just start putting links / posts to make those active. I am planning to do this for a Postgresql feed.
Yeah same, thought more people would be talking about that here, atleast about hosting stuff like lemmy
Sysadmin, but those don’t have a ton of activity
Link: !sysadmin@lemmy.world
Like hosting something as a business? Maybe the sysadmin communities?
Thats what I was looking for, thanks!
