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as a basic answer, what resources might i need to create my own lemmy instance? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago by RicoPeru@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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i’d like to make one but i don’t know how to code, for one, and also don’t know if it’s something i can just make on my ipad or if it needs a lot of resources.

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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 5 points 2 weeks ago

For a smaller instance I would always go with PieFed, it's much much easier to set up and to maintain, uses way less resources and has basically the same feature set.

Resources:

small VPS like the smallest from Hetzner for example
Linux installed on it
Postgresql database
Python 3 and pip installed
domain to point to that server
letsencrypt certificate to run it with https which is necessary to federate

I think that should be it.