Matthew Garrett1d ago

Well ok this all works now, which means that all my posting presence is a decent approximation of self-hosted (for varying degrees, I'm not hosting a bsky webapp and I don't know that there'd be a real benefit in doing so at this point)

Mastodon: Self hosted
Blog: Self hosted
Email: Self hosted
Bsky: PDS is self hosted

And backups on two continents so I'm sure this will all be entirely fine

Show threadJesse Atkinson20h ago
@mjg59 1. That’s amazing!
2. I’m very curious about how you did this. I have a UGreen NAS and am interested in hosting more on it but not sure if it’s wise to host my small blog on there. Would be curious how you did all this.
Show threadMatthew Garrett
@jsatk Using a static blog generator like Hugo is absolutely fine on low-powered hardware - the only dynamic part of my blog is the comments, and if you're fine using hosted stuff you can push that off to Disqus or something and not worry at all about running out of resources. Bsky PDS is similarly easy to run on a low power device. Mastodon wants a chunk more memory and disk and unless you're very invested in self hosting I wouldn't recommend.
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Show threadJesse Atkinson20h ago

@mjg59 My neglected website is actually using Hugo because I wanted the most basic CMS that I could just... run.

As far as Mastodon goes I'm happy on my instance. Its for local SF people and I donate to them monthly.

Thanks for the info!