Since EH is getting DDOSed it is finally time to tell you that you should enrich the fediverse by making your own instance.
Requirements:
- Spare computer or an old android phone
- Domain
Things that might be useful:
- Static IP
- Ability to port forward
- Ability to use navigate trough the terminal on Linux
If you can use linux just follow the instructions here. If you can’t use it I can help you set it up or directly set it up for you.
Edit: yes, I do have my own instance, but since there was a XSS vulnerability recently and I cannot update it, I am not running it
Has anyone hosted one on a phone? I have a old pinephone collecting dust it would be funny to just make it into a lemmy instance.
I don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible. You can run straight up linux on some phones or you can run something like UserLAnd and run some linux distros. Since docker also has emulation layer to run x86 stuff on arm and the other way around I don’t see any issues running it.
When I have the time I will try to do it on one old samsung galaxy s7 edge that I have.
I think you can do it using termux.
termux may not be necessary with the pinephone, which can run linuxy distros like postmarketos for instance
The PP isn’t very capable device. A good phone with termux would be better if you are gonna host other stuff.
This is so you always have access to your own instance and it updates EH whenever it can reach it?
Yes
I concur :D
What are the hardware requirements? I’ve got machines lying around.
I don’t think it is that much. Probably 1-2 cores, 2-4gb ram and 20gb of storage will do
