I have tried the docker, ansible, and scratch methods. I have been troubleshooting for a month now. I have gotten nowhere. I need someone to help walk me through how to deploy a lemmy server because the guides are absolute trash.

Please help. I’m wasting money running this VPS and for literally nothing.

Edit: So, I’ve tried the ansible method, but I can’t access my server this way. It just keeps saying “UNREACHABLE”. I have generated a dozen keys, none of them work. I have NO PROBLEMS with ssh in Putty. I can use Putty all day. Putty works fine using my ssh key. Ansible does not. No amount of new keys has made any difference. I have countless keys in my stupid droplet because of this hacky garbage.

  • Max-PEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Lots of people actually. Part of self-hosting is to be in control of your own stuff. My instance is for exclusive use of myself and my friends for example. That way if lemmy.ml or lemmy.world have problems, mine keeps working and will eventually resync when those come back online. I also have my own emails and my own Matrix and my own IRC bouncer and my own lots of things. That way I’m in full control of my experience, and I own all my data.

    There’s a fair bit of single user lemmy instances out there. It’s a valid use case, just not yours.

    • @ZMonsterOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Oh okay, that makes sense. Thanks for the perspective!