Lemmy fully managed open source service | Elest.io
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Deploy Lemmy on Elest.io and get a working dedicated instance in less than 3 minutes. You can Relax knowing that we are taking care for you of install, configuration, encryption, backups, software updates, os upgrades, live monitoring, alerts, live migrations without downtime ... and more! With Lemmy, you can easily host your own server, and all these servers are federated, and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse. For a link aggregator, this means that someone registered on one server can subscribe to communities elsewhere, and can have discussions with people on a completely different server.

Hey dear community, we just launched today our fully managed hosting of Lemmy

We offer to do Deployment / Security / SSL / DNS / SMTP / Monitoring / Alerts / Backups / Automated updates / Handle migrations / Fully automated but with Human support :)

We deploy each instance on a dedicated VM, and we provide full root access as well if you want to customize anything.

Pricing start at $10/month (billed hourly, no contract)

https://elest.io/open-source/lemmy

I would love to get some feedback from the community

  • ᗪIᐯEᖇGEᑎTᕼᗩᖇᗰOᑎIᑕᔕ@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    While i can see a benefit in such a service … anyway, one (and a half) questions out of principle:

    Are you actively participating in Lemmy or the “Fediverse” at large, meaning that you’d have a vital interest in the development of collectively-operated social networks?
    Or is it more so that you jumped on the opportunity to perhaps be the first company to put an advertisement in people’s feeds, in order to make a buseness?

    … I may add, this is advertising a service which potentially would allow for customer lock-in, and at the same time it would allow the service provider to potentially gain power over parts of the network. Lemmy instance admins would in essence hand their keys and trustworthyness to a third party. That is concerning.

    And … this is calling for a feature request: advertisement flag, including an ignore option in user settings.

    • jbenguira@lemmy.elest.ioOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Let me answer to this properly:

      1. We have interest in Open source in general, not only Fediverse even if we also support Mastodon, Friendica, PeerTube, Gitea and also soon KBIN and Pixelfed
      2. We contribute in code to some projects, and we also give back part of our revenues to open source authors partnering with us
      3. There is NO lock-in, at any time customers can download a full backup and run their stack anywhere else
      4. We (human support team) have no access to customers servers unless customers give us the permission and share access with us for investigation
      • ᗪIᐯEᖇGEᑎTᕼᗩᖇᗰOᑎIᑕᔕ@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        01·
        2 years ago

        ad 1. You seem to not have paid much attention to the fact that part of the audience you are talking to is leaving another company’s platform because of what is now called “enshittification”. Part of that includes targeted advertising. Why would a cooperative that is driven by such an interest trust your agency?
        ad 2. Hope so that you are paying your contractors! ;-)
        ad 3. I’ll take it. potentially.
        ad 4. bruh!

        You can Relax knowing that we are taking care for you of install, configuration, encryption, backups, software updates, os upgrades, live monitoring, alerts, live migrations without downtime …

        I can also relax as the NSA and certainly others too, keep backups of all my tracking.