Running my own single instance is kind of expensive.

[ben@werd.social]

Running my own single instance is kind of expensive. I wish I could use my own domain on my handle while using a shared instance.

[fasnix@fe.disroot.org]

@ben
If I'm not mistaken, @HolosSocial makes that possible.

[frog@frogdrool.net]

@ben I like it. I'd probably still self host though because like holding the banhammer, even if I don't swing it very often.

[andres@mastodon.hardcoredevs.com]

@ben I have resources to spare, I don't have the reliability yet since it's home hosted. If you don't care about it being up 24/7 I can host you for free.

[stefan@gardenstate.social]

@ben I wonder if @Bonfire or other applications have this ability. The ven diagram of cost, ownership, and customization has not been solved yet!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@ben if I may ask, how expensive?

GoToSocial is lightweight and super efficient and it works perfectly on a basic VPS (4 Euros/mo).

I hear that Mastodon is resource intensive… people recommended I opt for GoToSocial when I shared my plans to self-host. I’ve been using it for 14 months now and I have nothing but great things to say about it

[ben@werd.social]

@_elena I just had to upgrade my Mastodon hosting to $49/mo. So, yeah, looking for alternatives, while ideally not maintaining my own server. I may just accelerate Idno development and switch there.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@ben what infrastructure are you using? Masto.host has SUPER affordable plans. You could easily pay 6 dollars a month and they handle everything in the backend.

49 a month is a robbery!

I pay 12/month for a VPS that has my PeerTube, NextCloud, GoToSocial, Pixelfed and a bunch of other FOSS apps

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@_elena @ben masto.host is horribly expensive if you have lots of followers/following. I am on it with one user account and its now 80$ a month. I have been needing to get off really bad cause it goes up 10$ every few months

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@liaizon oh I’m sorry I wasn’t aware of that…

In that case a self-hosted GoToSocial on a basic VPS could be a good alternative?

@ben

[stefan@stefanbohacek.online]

@liaizon Ah, interesting. I was just going to add here that I heard directly from a high-follower account (10-20k, I think?) that even the cheaper Masto.host plans have been good at handling all the traffic.

@_elena @ben

[ericphelps@mastodon.social]

@ben Can't find the details right now, but I'm pretty sure you can just use a super cheap web server and place one "well known" file on it that lets you use e.g., mastodon.social to do the heavy lifting while the rest of the world sees your werd.social address.
It's a bit embarrassing that I haven't tried doing that myself.

[scarpentier@pataterie.ca]

@_elena @liaizon @ben whoa that's way too expensive! If you're looking for cheaper managed Mastodon or GoToSocial plans, I can vouch for @fedihost !

https://fedihost.co/pricing

[ben@werd.social]

@liaizon @_elena Yeah, I’m on masto.host. I’ll work on it!

[77nn@goto.77nn.it]

@_elena @ben

I'm running my #GoToSocial individual instance on an old Celeron powered Asus VivoPc at home since 3 years. I think it costs less than 4€/month for power.

[nolsen311@infosec.exchange]

@ben
Have you checked out the @HolosSocial project?

[torb@hachyderm.io]

@ben AFAIK that is a possibility within the ActivityPub-spec, but not really implemented by any providers (that I know of).