Looking into costs for running our own #Mastodon instance.

Has anyone done any comparison between the most common providers for a quick-start?

@turumore Simply because I'm interested, for work or social puposes?
@caffeinatedgeoff For personal purposes! I'm interested in trying things out.
@turumore I would be interested in how easy & costly it is to run an instance too.
May I follow you and your experiences setting up an instance?
@Dayks You're more than welcome to join my journey! I will most likely post some updates over this weekend when I have more time to set things up.
@turumore thank you, I have no real need to set anything up but the occasional geek-out is good for the soul!
@Dayks Agreed! Do you have anything geeky you're working on at the moment and would like to share?
@turumore Nothing major, I'm playing ( and it really is level 1 beginner playing ) with Raspberry Pi at the moment. So far I've managed to set up a persistent ad-blocker for my home internet and a camera to watch the approach to home.
I did set up a Rocket.chat server but had no need for it and hated that the database was off-site.
@Dayks Some time back I tinkered with the Raspberry Pi too, soldering a little LCD display for it and poking with Python for messaging. Haven't done much with that stuff lately!