I am thinking about hosting my own Mastodon server from home on a Raspberry Pi (Pi4 8GB)?

  1. Are there good tutorials out there?
  2. What’s the annual cost just to host yourself?

@linux @nixCraft @raspberrypi

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
    -3•9 months ago

    A raspberry pi isn’t fit for hosting public services. Your likely looking for a VPS.

    • @[email protected]
      5•9 months ago

      Maybe not high traffic services, if it’s being self hosted the limiting factor is probably the upload bandwidth anyway. I’m not sure how resource intensive Mastodon is to host though.

      • Po Tay Toes
        4•9 months ago

        I have a Pi4 running a mastodon branch, the “dreaded capacity hog” synapse and much more. Never had any issues with capacity. I know people who set up Pi’s as CDN relief servers for PeerTube video transfers.

        I suppose people have different experiences.