I’m looking to wind up a lemmy instance for a subreddit that I mod that gets something like 1000 daily visitors. We mainly share photos, though daily visitors greatly outweighs active users. It would additionally not be federated. For personal security reasons, and home networking limitations, I want to find a web host. Could anyone suggest one of the many hosts out there would work best for someone in the US, won’t drive me to the poor house, and can support these needs? I can afford like $40/month, or can buy years in advance if it’s a good deal.

  • reinar@distress.digitalEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    1000 daily visitors

    it’s not much, any non-micro vps from decent provider will do. For precise recommendations it’d be better to know where most of your users are located, latency is a bitch.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
    1·
    1 year ago

    Why do you think it’s necessary to host an entire Lemmy server for one subreddit with only a 1000 visitors a day?

    Edit: Am blind

    Any small VPS at around $5 will handle it just fine.

  • Eddie@l.lucitt.com
    01·
    1 year ago

    I personally use DigitalOcean and find it to be quite user friendly.

    They use what they call “Droplets” to create a VPS. You can have multiple at once and it only charges you for the time you use it, and you can delete add more at any time. They’ll just bill you at the end of the month for the usage.

    What’s nice is that it also has a marketplace, so if you want to spin up a Docker Ubuntu server, or a vanilla Debian server, you can do that with one click.