A newbie's guide to self-hosting: GoToSocial part 1 (installation and set-up)
blog.elenarossini.com
A step-by-step visual tutorial for newbies about installing and setting up the federated microblogging service GoToSocial

A step-by-step visual tutorial for newbies about installing and setting up the federated microblogging service GoToSocial

  • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    27 days ago

    Just saying: If you need a step for step tutorial to make something available worldwide, you shouldn’t.

    There is a reason why an apprenticeship for sysAdmin (not even going into software engeneering) is 3 years of school and work full time.

    Also, as someone who has actually gone into this kinda deep, it is simply not feasable to actively maintain your system for CVEs, hardware and software and still work AND have a social life.

    Also by hosting a social media site (its a peer after all) you need to abide by all kind of regulatory shit the moment you make it available for others to post there.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    27 days ago

    I don’t think I’m going to be spinning up a GoToSocial anytime soon, OP. But some good info none the less. Thank you for sharing.

    • mesa@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      27 days ago

      Its perfectly fine not to. If you like the old twitter like interface and folling “people” rather than “topics” (like lemmy/piefed does), then you would like GTS. If the answer is no, keep using your fediverse that you like.

      But yeah its relatively unique instructions specifically for Yunohost is what makes this article a good one.

      Hope you have an awesome day!

    • elena@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      25 days ago

      Thank you for bringing this up! This is Elena, the author of the blog https://blog.elenarossini.com/.

      My Ghost blog is being hosted by Magic Pages… when I signed up last year they had a fully European stack (Bunny CDN) - something that is incredibly important to me.

      Recently they moved from BunnyCDN to Cloudflare to keep costs down (prices had skyrocketed). I have no saying in this, but I understand Jannis and his team.

      Magic Pages takes care of all the software updates and offers amazing support (plus it would cost me 2x to self-host it… I made the calculations).

      And for the record, my personal website - which I self-host - uses BunnyCDN: elenarossini.com

      • airikr@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        25 days ago

        Thank you for your reply. But if you can self-host your personal website, why don’t you self-host Ghost?

        • elena@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          25 days ago

          Because Ghost now requires Docker and it’s way beyond my scope of expertise (I used to self-host a previous version with Ghost CLI - it will be sunset in the next version).

          Ghost is also expensive to self-host, especially the newsletter part. Magic Pages does all the maintenance and updates for me for the price of what I used to pay just for the newsletter integration… and I don’t have to worry about a thing 🥲

          • airikr@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            25 days ago

            If you have your own server, I can write you a bash script for installing Ghost and updating it when you run the script.

            What do you say?

            • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              24 days ago

              and what will handle the breaking changes? and the release verification? what will update the database and the operating system, especially across major versions?

            • elena@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              23 days ago

              I appreciate the kind offer @airikr@lemmy.ml but no thank you.

              I self-hosted Ghost for almost a year via Ghost CLI and it was (1) expensive (2) stressful - especially dealing with potential DDOS attacks and with the newsletter company Mailgun who handles the newsletter part (and would throw me all kinds of random error messages).

              Self-hosting Ghost means spending TWICE as much and investing extra hours every month in maintenance.

              With Magic Pages I save money and Jannis and his team take care of all the maintenance and updates and respond immediately if I run into any issues.

              Yes I don’t like Cloudflare but I wouldn’t go to these lengths just to avoid it.

              • airikr@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2·
                23 days ago

                Aha. Then I understand your decision more :) Thank you for explaining.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      27 days ago

      Didn’t down vote ya, but the very forum you posted to utilizes Cloudflare. It doesn’t seem to be that nauseating.

      • mesa@piefed.socialOPEnglish
        2·
        27 days ago

        Does lemmy.world use cloudflare?

        Also im confused, is there a reason people dont like cloudflare? Other than eating up caching for the entire internet of course?