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First post from my new, self-hosted, personal instance. Feels good!

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[–] AngryDemonoid@lemmy.lylapol.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I host it on a VPS since I was hesitant about having something like this hosted at home. As far as spinning it up, it was relatively straightforward using the docker instructions (https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html).

I ran into some issues with the postfix container not being able to send emails, but it turned out I just needed to ask my VPS provider to unblock port 25 for SMTP.

I started mine at home but quickly came to the same decision as you and moved it out to a VPS.

I use Amazon SES for mail relay.

[–] Darkbug@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the link. I may try hosting it at home just for kicks.