StammyMar 7, 2023

Want to have complete control and host your own Mastodon server?

I learned a lot about how to host my own Mastodon server, migrate my account and everything that entailed, so I wrote the most comprehensive guide on hosting Mastodon yourself:

https://paulstamatiou.com/hosting-your-own-mastodon-server/

In it I show two ways to host your own server (using a fully-managed Mastodon host, and using a VPS provider). I go into everything from scripts to backup your database and run media clean up tasks, to advanced settings to optimize your server.

I also talk about what to do when things go wrong, and what to expect when first running your new server. If you enjoy this, please share, this one took two months to write.

Hosting your own Mastodon server

Join the Fediverse on your own terms

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Show threadOlav

@stammy extremely well put together!

I did a diaspora* pod for a bit until I started having ethical (& potentially legal) questions around the lack of moderation there, & still run several WP sites on a VPS that are (or will be) federating.

So my thinking is that if one is planning on running any instance of scale, a managed host is probably the best option. That allows multiple admins that don't have to know LAMP, & hopefully gets around the masodon.lol problem, as well as moderator burnout

Mar 8, 2023 at 6:22amWeb