Anyone know how much it costs to host a #VPS for a #Matrix #homeserver with all the bells and whistles (Voice/video calls included)? Or how powerful of a PC would I need to host it locally?
Matrix is the closest we've got to a self hosted Discord so I'd like to know my options.
#selfhosting week 1, phase 3B bis: Disappointment.
Subscribed to a Ionos vps in alternative to Hostinger, but the interface is much, much more complex (I'm referring to the vps and domains management) - thought Hostinger was the worst.
But, if accessibility declaration on Hostinger says "partially accessible" giving an e-mail address (not dedicated, it's the generic support), Ionos makes me point to an Italian paragraph where they claim barrier-free then says "for support, contact us through contact form", redirecting to a German accessibility page where NO FORM is displayed. Is it this way to treat customers?
Does @fsfe and @EUCommission have something to say? These are fake accessibility declarations.
You can't say you respect all customers, when you make your showcase site mostly accessible but most important feature (the vps/firewall management panels) impossible to use. To give an example, the "edit" button for a single firewall rule is labeled as "y", the delete is "]", the add rule is "@" ... Not to say that @yunohost on Ionos creates ipv6 issues, the port TCP 25 is closed and I need to call them with EXACTLY my phone number to have them open the port for me...
I must definitely try to talk to them and start the refund procedure.
Unfortunately though, Ionos would give me 240 gb hard disk for storage while hostinger, even upgrading, would give me 100.
WTF. #accessibility #blind #frustration #selfhost #vps
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Running your own Mastodon server on a VPS is an excellent way to enjoy an efficient and secure Mastodon experience.
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#SelfHosting week 1, phase 2. Exploring the world.
Yesterday it's been the day of wild experiments. Install Lemmy (and it's up and running with some basic communities), install Ghost, try the editor.
I assumed Ghost's text writing was worse, completely inaccessible, that's what I heard. Nothing comparable to WordPress's efforts, but you can use it especially in markdown mode. Version 6.10. But it does not federate contents around my instances.
Concerning federation, I've struggled long with Lemmy just to discover that VPS had wrong date and Mastodon instances blocked the process.
It is not coherent with the USA-independent ambition but Google Gemini helped a lot, providing terminal commands needed to fix some issues, including the deprecated gpg keyring stuff which returned errors while updating system.
And today I did mostly nothing. It's been a recognition trip, between me and Alex "Gifter" (my sighted co-worker). Our plan was, and is, to keep plusbrothers.online as experiment then dismantle it, transferring our original domain here. So, getting used to the new environment with plusbrothers.online and later, if it's possible, to transfer all our platforms to plusbrothers.net making it point here on our YunoHost.
We have just finished to explore the other provider than Hostinger, Hetzner. And guess what? To create server, choose parameters, every step of configuration aren't accessible with screen readers. Gifter who knows literally nothing about servers, should configure everything for me.
And what does it means? You're inaccessible, you won't get my money.
So we're going to consider to upgrade Hostinger KVM1 to KMV2. Unless we find some cheaper and more accessible VPS service.
Update: tried Contabo's web interface as well, but it has an image-based captcha when resetting the account's password. Btw in that case I should get in touch with a blind Contabo long-time customer.
