• SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    I’m very new here and curious if I could ask as it sounds like you know what you are talking about.

    My self hosting skills are extremely basic. I have an 8G Pi4 I run jellyfin, navidrome and a few other bits and bobs on. I’m scared of opening ports on my home network so use Timescale for external access. Could I run a personal Lemmy instance like this? Can I interact with other instances via Tailscale or do I need to actually open ports?

    Resource wise what would a personal instance require in the cloud? Would something basic like a 512mb 10G droplet from Digital Ocean suffice?

    • Hexarei@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      You could use a Cloudflare tunnel if you really wanted to avoid opening ports, but basically as long as you only open the right ports for what you want to host and have a good firewall (I use OPNSense) you’re fine