I am a software developer by craft and a linux system admin by hobby. I cannot commit to moderating and managing my own instance, but I would be glad to help someone with the technical aspects.

The most common complaint I saw in Reddit and here about switching to Lemmy is the difficulty of setting it up, so I thought I would help bridge this gap.

While I have never hosted my own instance before, I already checked the setup guide and it looks pretty simple to me, so I am confident I can do it. Please feel free to comment or DM.

It would be great if you can comment general questions. I can then respond to you here and maybe others will see it and know how to host their own instances too.

  • MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Anyone know if setting up an instance via a shared Hostgator server is possible? I already pay for a plan for my personal site so wondered if I could add on a new domain plus a partition to it and take advantage to make my own instance for posting and browsing myself.

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        1 year ago

        It’s a web hosting service. The plan I have is the baby plan shared hosting on this link.

        But from looking more myself, not sure if this would work. I think I’d need a VPS to actually install and build Lemmy on.

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          1 year ago

          yes you would need a VPS. The only way to use lemmy with hostgator is if they add lemmy to their services like they do with wordpress for example.