I’m looking to wind up a lemmy instance for a subreddit that I mod that gets something like 1000 daily visitors. We mainly share photos, though daily visitors greatly outweighs active users. It would additionally not be federated. For personal security reasons, and home networking limitations, I want to find a web host. Could anyone suggest one of the many hosts out there would work best for someone in the US, won’t drive me to the poor house, and can support these needs? I can afford like $40/month, or can buy years in advance if it’s a good deal.
Why do you think it’s necessary to host an entire Lemmy server for one subreddit with only a 1000 visitors a day?Edit: Am blind
Any small VPS at around $5 will handle it just fine.
digitial ocean droplet. With the ansible playbook mine was up in 20min
We like the reddit-adjacent function in lemmy compared to a standard bbs.
But dont you lose that if your not federated. Or you mean like a private reddit style system
The latter
try Hetzner cloud, choose east or west US based on your users location
1000 daily visitors
it’s not much, any non-micro vps from decent provider will do. For precise recommendations it’d be better to know where most of your users are located, latency is a bitch.
Sorry I thought I had that included. We’re primarily in the US. Very rarely we see users from the UK though.
ramnode or linode will do, you’ll need 2+GB of RAM.
Is there a reason you don’t want it to be federated? This would require every user to make a separate account, just to access your community, instead of being able to join and post using accounts from other instances.
Additionally creating an instance for just a single subreddit/community seems overkill. Have you considered creating a community on an existing instance?
I personally use DigitalOcean and find it to be quite user friendly.
They use what they call “Droplets” to create a VPS. You can have multiple at once and it only charges you for the time you use it, and you can delete add more at any time. They’ll just bill you at the end of the month for the usage.
What’s nice is that it also has a marketplace, so if you want to spin up a Docker Ubuntu server, or a vanilla Debian server, you can do that with one click.
