My personal Mastodon instance is doing great. It runs on my old gaming desktop in my living room. Haven’t had any downtime today, so I can say with 100% confidence that my living room has better 24 hour uptime than Amazon right now. Who wants to buy some compute time from my living room?

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sopuli is hosted on Hetzner, so no problems whatsoever.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

nice. Most of my instances I provide for are self hosted solutions.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does Hetzner host on their own infra?

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, they have their own datacenters.

They are also one of/the biggest hosting providers fedi instances use, if they'd go down, big parts of fedi would as well

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 1 points 1 week ago

Perks of still running bare metal in colo, no issues for any of my stuff. Not seeing anyone say anything in the Lemmy chat on Matrix either.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Itd be idiotic to host a fediverse instance on big cloud providers.

care about privacy and security? dont host on AWS

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I never even heard of AWS before today. What is it?

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

It's called amazon web services.

In short there's 3 major cloud providers

Amazon Web Services

Google Cloud Platform

Microsoft Azure

All 3 basically do the same thing, real simplified version of it. it's kind of a giant pool of server resources that are leased to you by demand. So say if you are netflix and have 100 million people watching the day a new series drops, but then only have 1 million watching tuesday night, they pay based on how much is currently being used, rather than having to set everything to handle peak, but be idle 90% of the time.

again yeah it's expensive for most purposes... and one can argue how bad it is on the whole, but it is kind of what most companies have been using for a lot of things for the last 15 years.

[–] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Amazon web services. They are one of the biggest providers for hosting things. A lot of the internet infrastructure uses aws.

[–] limonfiesta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I hope people aren't under the impression that Lemmy is about privacy.

Arguably it's even less private than Reddit, as at least Reddit has some sort of controls on who can access your data i.e. whoever pays.

But on Lemmy, that's free with federation. Maybe not the same granular tracking data, but enough of users personal data is available as to not consider Lemmy to be a privacy centric service.