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Reminder: A tiny VPS can be very cheap. The main cost of running an ActivityPub/Mastodon server is your time as a moderator.

The fediverse is based on federation. It tends to filter out unmanaged servers that host spammers, trolls, hate speech & similar.

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A tiny VPS can be free, even a medium sized one. Oracle for example offers 4core aarch64, 24gb RAM, 200GB disk VMs for free.

Whatnow?

Yep - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

Not sure what's the catch though, Hope someone else who have used it will enlighten us. If I have to take a guess, It would be network performance like most other inexpensive cloud infrastructure providers but the load balancer says 10mbps.

I'm using it for some personal projects, the only catch is that you have to input your credit card (so you do not create bogus accounts), and it is limited to a subset of regions. I personally do not use the load balancer, but the "normal" VPS do 1gbps just fine. I think it is capped at 10tb/month but I am not sure about that.

In general, I can highly recommend them.

Thank you, That sounds like good setup to save couple of bucks off side projects hosting.

Have you checked their security promises? AWS KMS like service would be bit too much to ask I guess, Considering they're VMs FDE should be fine?

They offer several kinds of encryption at rest, encryption in transit, but I haven't looked further into it yet.

Thank you, I tried the Oracle free tier and have written down the quirks I found here - https://abishekmuthian.com/oracle-cloud-free-tier-quirks/ .

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