I’m thinking of setting up another lemmy instance and was considering just hosting it on the same VPS as my current instance. I know lemmygrad is hosted on the same server as lemmy.ml. How difficult is this?

  • triplenadir
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    3 years ago

    If you’re using Docker, there should be no problem running two instances of Lemmy in parallel - just make sure they’re pointing at different directors for their data files, and that the docker-compose.yml files live in different folders so they get separate project names.

    Not 100% sure about Ansible - you could set lemmy_base_dir in hosts/inventoty, but you might need to handle setting up and pointing at separate Postgres databases yourself.

    Once you have the 2 servers running (on different ports), you’d change the config file ([Lemmy’s single site example here[(https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/blob/main/templates/nginx.conf)) add another server {} block, to reverse proxy to a different port depending on the domain name.