I’m trying to better understand hosting a Lemmy Instance. Lurking discussions it seems like some people are hosting from the Cloud or VPS. My understanding is that it’s better to futureproof by running your own home server so that you have the data and the top most control of hardware, software etc. My understanding is that by hosting an instance via Cloud or VPS you are offloading the data / information to a 3rd party.

Are people actually running their own actual self-hosted servers from home? Do you have any recommended guides on running a Lemmy Instance?

  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So just laid my hands on a 55€ + 6.49€ Shipping Lenovo thinkcenter M 910Q I5 Vpro 6eme gen 8GB/256GB SSD

    It’s crazy. I mean not long ago all I could even dream about was expensive slow computers with small harddrives :-D

    So I’ll dedicate it to docker “stuff”, thank you :-) I really like the docker idea, and running on like “any” Linux kernel (if I got that right) is so awesome. I have mostly had to work on windows at work and it’s so both changing and closed system it’s infuriating in the long run.

    Thanks for the link to all the examples, I have to get to try it all out, but if I want to “dockerise” stuff myself, how do you decide like how do it access to the outside world, like I fire up a docker image which plays music (if that’s even possible?) it has to have access to the disc, sound drivers, maybe interactive stuff etc on the host PC right?

    Cheers

    • tristan@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Congrats on your new slippery slope haha

      ike I fire up a docker image which plays music (if that’s even possible?) it has to have access to the disc, sound drivers, maybe interactive stuff etc on the host PC right?

      So the main things you’ll want to read up on for that are mounts. Mounts will let you attach files and folders from the host computer into the docker container that it sees as if it’s inside the container.

      A lot of docker apps will run a web host, so instead of accessing them like a normal application, you load up the website that’s located at the IP address, and the exposed port. Then just like running Netflix or anything, it already has access to local sound and video devices through that

      This also means that you can open them up to other computers/devices on the home network… so your phone could load it up and play music or your windows PC could, and it’s all served from that docker container

      If you’re interested in hosting media, you could look into Plex or jellyfin, they are media servers that can stream self hosted videos, music and photos over the network.

      There’s a lot of other options that are more specific, and what’s right for everybody else might not be right for you so it’s worth playing around with various options

      • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Running docker on my phone, now that seems crazy cool, but also obvious when you think about it (why didn’t I think about it 😁).

        I’m collecting my little 55€ Think Centre this lunch (6500T 8GB/256GB), we’ll see what it will be used for but I guess dockers will sure play a part!

        Cheers!