Hi. I’m new to Lemmy. Here’s what I’m wondering. How Lemmy servers are paid. If the person who opens the server no longer wants to pay this fee, the server has to shut down. How is this issue resolved?

  • 0485
    11•2 years ago

    It’s important to chose a instance with a reputable host.

    Don’t go join your neighbors basement troll server.

    Pick something that’s established, then they will typically not shut down.

      • AndreasEnglish
        9•2 years ago

        Single-user basement troll servers are the way forward in the fediverse.

        Use ZeroTier or Tailscale tunneling if you’re hosting from your home network (fuck Cloudflare, all my homies hate Cloudflare). You can also rent a cloud server, put a VPN on it and tunnel all of the traffic to your homeserver without exposing the homeserver itself to the internet. Or just put the instance on the cloud server itself.

        • AnasEnglish
          4•2 years ago

          (fuck Cloudflare, all my homies hate Cloudflare)

          I might be out of the loop, why?

          • AndreasEnglish
            5•2 years ago

            Mostly centralization and monopoly concerns, considering that 80% of websites use Cloudflare. The data security isn’t great (Cloudflare can obviously access all traffic unencrypted) but the tunnels are free. I won’t yell at people for using Cloudflare, especially for the DDOS protection which is difficult for a smaller company to provide, but it’s always treated like everyone has to use it or else their website will explode, which gets annoying.

          • @taazEnglish
            1•2 years ago

            Also checking in

        • ccdfaEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          Like others I’m wondering why not cloudflare?

        • @LucidDaemonEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          What’s a good alternative? I have a few domains through Cloudflare that I have no issue transferring elsewhere.

        • AlpaguOPEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          Very complicated

          • @LemmingEnglish
            3•2 years ago

            Noone said it’s gonna be easy. Besides, if you don’t understand that stuff you really shouldn’t be running your server anyways

            • AlpaguOPEnglish
              2•2 years ago

              I absolutely agree. I want someone who understands this to do it and we can support it financially.

          • AndreasEnglish
            2•2 years ago

            I have all of my domains under my name with WHOIS privacy enabled and I’ve never gotten a spam call or email from my domains. Your registrar won’t give out your personal information unless they have to comply, like a legal warrant. But if you’re worried about your particulars getting leaked somehow, you can use a VOIP number and PO Box address as your contact information, as long as you use your real name so your domains can’t be taken from you during a dispute. Registrars like Njalla and Epik also give you the option to list them as the domain contact so you don’t have to leave your personal information at all, and they’ll forward any messages to your account.