demizeApr 27, 2022

very seriously considering starting up my own glitch-soc instance on unstable.systems

if I *did*, would anyone want an account there? would try to find a decent server to host it on, though probably in EU because all the relatively affordable dedicated servers seem to be European (would probably just go Hetzner unless anyone's got a good alternative)

Show threadMaiaApr 27, 2022
@demize OVH has US data centers (one in Virginia, one in Oregon) and they're relatively cheap, although not quite as cheap as Hetzner (I'm paying a bit over $80/month for a server that from Hetzner would probably cost closer to $60/month or less). In my case, though, because I'd also like to be able to run game servers for friends and things like that and not have the minimum ping be 100+ms, I was willing to pay the premium
Show threadMaia
@demize that said, I'm given to understand that despite the fact that Mastodon has a bunch of RAM-consuming moving parts, private Mastodon/glitch-soc instances can run on relatively constrained VPSes like the cheaper ones from Vultr and TornadoVPS (formerly prgmr) and the like, so that's something to consider as well
Apr 27, 2022 at 4:48pmWeb
Show threaddemizeApr 27, 2022

@maia I'm hoping to go for a mildly beefy dedicated so that I can a) host a fairly reliable and responsive instance for whatever friends want to use it and b) also run the website for the project I've been working on, without impacting a

I *could* go VPS, but I would rather run fewer servers if I can help it :p

Show threadMaiaApr 27, 2022
@demize for what it's worth, at OVH, $86/month plus a $58 setup fee (I opted not to enter into a commitment at this time; if I had it'd be 5% off and no setup fee) gets me an "Advance-2 LE" server, which has a Xeon E-2136 (6 core/12 thread), 32GB RAM, 2x500GB NVME SSDs, and 1Gbps public bandwidth (although this is shared so the gigabit is not guaranteed; there are packages with a guaranteed 1Gbps if that's important)