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normally you'd rent out a server (vps) and run it on there but hosting from your house would also work. the whole idea about Lemmy is that each instance is ran on different servers by different people
I'd be hesitant to run it at your own house. While you can use a cloudflare tunnel, I'd never expose anything in my home network to the outside.
Digital ocean is cheap, there's another called hetzner which looks also pretty cheap. So you start will rent 1 core VPS for 5 bucks, it's enough to run your own instance but not really enough to host any communities.
I host a few purely personal services exposed to the net....
But when I wanted to set up a lemmy instance I got a VPS. Too public.
And since I had more resources than I needed I opened it for others to register too :)
At least one user has surpassed me in number of comments (~600) so I helped the fediverse a bit
Yeah, most likely your ISP will just stop you. Home internet plans in the US today almost all disallow using the service for public hosting.
France here, runs like a charm (finally!) on an old dell box at home.
lemmy.mindoki.com yay!
Now I just have to decide what I should actually do with it :-)
that part isn't a problem with Irish isps, I run a variety of things to myself without problems
+1 for Hetzner. Their servers are reliable and reasonably cheap.