I want to host a fediverse instance but I need it to be light (limited system resources). Mastodon seems to be kinda heavy. GotoSocial is supposedly very light? (but limited on functionality?) is Pixelfed much heavier? Bonfire is built on elixir so should also be light? Akkoma? Pleroma?
Also, I need it to be engaging to people migrating mostly from IG, so I do need some bells/whistles I guess
thanks!
EDIT: The instance is supposed to be hosting a community of 100-200 people. Maybe even more in the future (in which case we would probably migrate to another server)
Having a “facebook pages” / mini website / pixelfed portfolio is very functional for the people I plan to invite.
100 - 200 users is a lot, especially with public federation. I would go for Pleroma fork or setup Pixelfed as direct IG interface.
16gb recommended for people actually using it. It’ll be $40 - 80 a month VPS.
Since you plan to scale up, go 16gb minimum. 100gb minimum, but consider how you want to handle photos.
@geoma @kiol That sounds like something that would be possible with #PAYG #Oraclecloud account - Most of the resources would come from allways free tier so you’d basically only end up paying for test intances and bits and pieces.
I would never do that if the goal is a private server people trust me to run. Good luck with it.