I want to host a fediverse instance but I need it to be light (limited system resources). Mastodon seems to be kinda heavy. GotoSocial is supposedly very light? (but limited on functionality?) is Pixelfed much heavier? Bonfire is built on elixir so should also be light? Akkoma? Pleroma?

Also, I need it to be engaging to people migrating mostly from IG, so I do need some bells/whistles I guess

thanks!

EDIT: The instance is supposed to be hosting a community of 100-200 people. Maybe even more in the future (in which case we would probably migrate to another server)

Having a "facebook pages" / mini website / pixelfed portfolio is very functional for the people I plan to invite.

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[–] kiol@discuss.online 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

100 - 200 users is a lot, especially with public federation. I would go for Pleroma fork or setup Pixelfed as direct IG interface.

16gb recommended for people actually using it. It'll be $40 - 80 a month VPS.

Since you plan to scale up, go 16gb minimum. 100gb minimum, but consider how you want to handle photos.

[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

@geoma @kiol That sounds like something that would be possible with #PAYG #Oraclecloud account - Most of the resources would come from allways free tier so you'd basically only end up paying for test intances and bits and pieces.

[–] kiol@discuss.online 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I would never do that if the goal is a private server people trust me to run. Good luck with it.

[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 1 points 12 hours ago

@kiol Ah .. critically here I'm not talking about Oracle free accounts - its just VMs with Oracle - but they are low cost - really though it doesn't matter what provider you are using - they key is to have more instances (to provide backup and redudancy for each individual resource) - that could include onpremise low cost instances