Just signed up for hosting for my own Mastodon instance.
Hold my stuff; I’m goin in deep.
@andyw Is it easy to set up for not especially technical folks? I was under impression that one has to be an experienced Linux user/admin to do that...
@andyw Oh, I understand now. I'm thinking of creating an instance for certain small community which will hopefully federated with many other instances, and they seem to be a bit too expensive, given that there are dirt cheap VM at hetzner.de ...
@penartur @andyw @andy
By the way, I was able to set up my own Mastodon on Hetzner VPS. It's like 5x cheaper than masto.host; but of course you'll have to manage it.
Here is a step by step tutorial, in case someone needs it: https://github.com/penartur/mastodon-vps-tutorial
@penartur I went with one of those managed hosting providers — specifically, http://masto.host