Hi i just wanted to know if it is possible to host instance completely without renting anything.
if you have a video on it can you please share it here?
You can host an instance on any pc you can install stuff on or run docker containers on.
The issue, as the other commenter said, is that the computer needs to run so that it can catch and send federated stuff. Otherwise you are an island which can be a good usecase for a school or small company but not generally.
A probable usecase would be an old pc which you leave running or a raspberry pi. You route the federation ports through your router and nothing else. That way you have full federation and very few attack vectors. The most secure way to use it is locally on your network or by connecting via vpn.
thanks for replying
yes i will leave it on for days that i want to use that instance
Yea, you can but unless you plan to leave your PC on all the time and open ports on your firewall directly to your PC.
There are some major risks on doing that though.
not really i will just leave it on the days that i need
Thats not really how it works. Lemmy works on a Push model. When a post is created and the instance knows you are interested in the post by a user subscribing to it, the Lemmy instance will send the post to your server. But if your sever does not respond then the other instance will mark your server as dead and stop trying to send you posts.
When you turn on your instance you aren’t going to get a flood of posts that you have missed over the past few days/hours.
What do you mean by PC? Just asking because sometimes people use PC to refer to a computer that runs Windows. Just sort of how the vernacular ended up going over the years.
I can’t help, but even with Windows I think they have a way to run Linux stuff on it now, so it should be possible.
pc as in like laptop or desktop computer
btw is it possible if i use a high spec phone? like asus/ other gaming phones?
