I am a software developer by craft and a linux system admin by hobby. I cannot commit to moderating and managing my own instance, but I would be glad to help someone with the technical aspects.
The most common complaint I saw in Reddit and here about switching to Lemmy is the difficulty of setting it up, so I thought I would help bridge this gap.
While I have never hosted my own instance before, I already checked the setup guide and it looks pretty simple to me, so I am confident I can do it. Please feel free to comment or DM.
It would be great if you can comment general questions. I can then respond to you here and maybe others will see it and know how to host their own instances too.
Not familiar with Hostgator. Can you provide more details?
It’s a web hosting service. The plan I have is the baby plan shared hosting on this link.
But from looking more myself, not sure if this would work. I think I’d need a VPS to actually install and build Lemmy on.
yes you would need a VPS. The only way to use lemmy with hostgator is if they add lemmy to their services like they do with wordpress for example.
You’ll need to be able to ssh into the server.