I am thinking about hosting my own Mastodon server from home on a Raspberry Pi (Pi4 8GB)?

  1. Are there good tutorials out there?
  2. What’s the annual cost just to host yourself?

@linux @nixCraft @raspberrypi

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
    6·
    11 months ago

    Check out https://masto.host/ for managed hosting.

    You can migrate away from them if you ever want to.

    If you self host instead, make sure your server is on its own vlan. Servers are a target for exploitation, and you don’t want the rest of your home devices exposed if your server is compromised.

    Note: A Pi probably has the CPU power, but the caching from the server may be more space than an SD card will hold.

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      SD card is a hard no. Need to cram an NVMe hat on it or an external SSD or HDD. They need diskio and a fair bit of quickly recyclable space.

    • 4am@lemm.ee
      32·
      11 months ago

      A VLAN is not a security feature. Be sure that your firewalls and routers are configured properly and kept up to date.