flashgnash@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoWhy do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?message-squaremessage-square229fedilinkarrow-up1307arrow-down15
arrow-up1302arrow-down1message-squareWhy do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them?flashgnash@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square229fedilink
minus-squareMax-P@lemmy.max-p.melinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYou do need to allow incoming traffic, as the data is pushed to you by the remote server, not pulled from it. As @Hexarei@programming.dev said you could however use Cloudflare tunnels and it would work just fine, it just needs HTTPS. Experiment with it, have fun! Solving problems is how you learn that stuff 😃 Otherwise yeah the 512MB droplet should be alright to start off, that’s about what my instance uses.
You do need to allow incoming traffic, as the data is pushed to you by the remote server, not pulled from it.
As @Hexarei@programming.dev said you could however use Cloudflare tunnels and it would work just fine, it just needs HTTPS.
Experiment with it, have fun! Solving problems is how you learn that stuff 😃
Otherwise yeah the 512MB droplet should be alright to start off, that’s about what my instance uses.