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1. Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 01:18:45 JST Lohan Gunaweera

   Went server-shopping for the Mastodon instance and ended up shocked. This doesn't look sustainable. The economic crisis has made my money worthless.

   • Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 01:18:41 JST Lohan Gunaweera

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     • 竹下憲二

     @tk Netcup is the most affordable and stable provider I found, but they ask for something weird : a selfie with my ID card with English or German translation, and a piece of paper with your order. The thing about running a fediverse software is that it is resource hungry by design. It will pull in remote content. That demands loads of storage than a regular VPS.

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   • Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 01:18:42 JST Lohan Gunaweera

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     • 竹下憲二

     @tk Linode, Digital Ocean, gandi, 1984 and several others that offer "cheaper" prices but do not accept credit card payments. The issue is with my currency which completely collapsed over the past year.

   • 竹下憲二 (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 01:18:43 JST 竹下憲二

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     @lohang Which providers did you look at?
   • 竹下憲二 (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 01:18:44 JST 竹下憲二

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     @lohang VPS or hardware?
   • Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 01:18:44 JST Lohan Gunaweera

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     • 竹下憲二

     @tk VPS

   • Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 03:29:37 JST Lohan Gunaweera

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     I am happy to report that I found an affordable, small server and the software that fits it better. I now have my own self-hosted fedi instance at @lohang@social.alochana.net , powered by #epicyon . Please feel free to follow me there as well. I don't intend to bulk migrate my follows. I will instead continue to use this account as well, while making a soft transition by subscribing to people that I actively engage with. I am concerned about not being able to follow GNUSocial users. Let us see how this evolves :)

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