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I know this isn't exactly self-hosted, but does anyone have experience with this? (www.knthost.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Not exactly a self-hosting thing, but I'd like to know if anyone has experience with this service. Is it worth it? A scam? I don't know. I don't really have the hardware to truly self-host a Lemmy instance (mostly because of storage restrictions), but I'd like to know if this service that seems cheap for what it offers if legit.

I know that this isn't a pure self hosting question, but I nailed .com domain for $1/year and was wondering if it's actually worth doing this. Any insight is appreciated.

Editing to add that I'd love to do pure self-hosting here, but storage is a real issue.

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[–] seang96@spgrn.com 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Curious here how is storage an issue? Lemmy is 90% text and if you do the proxy for pictures its like 10%. If you use pictures from elsewhere and don't use pictures it's all text. I have had lemmy hosted for over a year now and it's using under 35GB. I have a not that subscribes to top posts on larger instances so I should have a lot of communities loaded.

Edit: oh yeah Pictrs integrates with S3 api now so you can offload image storage to cloud for pennies.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It is an issue for me because the only machine I have is my daily driver laptop, and I'd really rather not take up even that 35GB if it can be helped.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ah yeah it sucks to host on your actual computer, especially if you are using the laptop portably. I just wanted to point out storage isn't too bad if setup right. Best of luck finding a good host for your needs!

[–] spyd4r@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What about a pi and an external drive?

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean sure, that would be great, but I don't have that.

[–] spyd4r@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I was just providing a possible low cost solution. Either way, keep up the self hosting good work!