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I am thinking about hosting my own Mastodon server from home on a Raspberry Pi (Pi4 8GB)? (mastodon.social)

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I am thinking about hosting my own Mastodon server from home on a Raspberry Pi (Pi4 8GB)?

Are there good tutorials out there?
What's the annual cost just to host yourself?

@linux @nixCraft @raspberrypi

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I'd run it with Docker. The official documentation looks sufficient to get it up and running. I'd add a database backup to the stack as well, and save those backups to a separate machine.

A Pi 4 draws maybe 5W of electricity most of the time. 24/7 operation at 5W will be your cost (approx 44 kWh per year), not including cost of the Pi, your internet connection, and any time you spend on maintenance.