My experience as a noob to managing a server Trying to set up a self hosted Lemmy Instance
My experience as a noob to managing a server Trying to set up a self hosted Lemmy Instance - Lemmy.world
After I saw the news of Beehaw defederating from Lemmy.world I decided the best route to go would be to try and set up a self hosted instance to have the most control of my account as possible. I use Linux on the desktop but have no experience running a server. So far I’ve managed to get an instance that is able to get posts from the communities I’ve searched (which from I understand is typical behavior due to no pulling of historic data) however I’ve ran into issues. Both my Domain and VPS are from namecheap and I have the proper A records set up but am unsure what else I need to do to get everything working. Server Specs: Ubuntu 22.04 40GB SSD Storage 2GB RAM Dual Core CPU (What comes with the lowest Tier Namecheap VPS) Not much but figured for 1 user should be enough and I can always migrate to a better server. Used Ansible as the method to install Lemmy Issues I’m currently having: - new data such as votes and comments from outside instances do not appear (posts do) , and comments and votes I send to other instances aren’t visible outside mine - verification and notification emails do not send - cannot upload images I will edit to add any issues I run into or solutions to the ones I already have. Any help that can be given would be appreciated. If anybody wants to register to take a look at what’s going on yourself just mention your main Lemmy username in the application and this post.
