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Stupid question, but are there free VPS/VM instances for a jobless girl who wants to run her own instance? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 5 hours ago by atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have no job, so the gift cards I have are prepaid and only have a few dollars on them. I should get a job soon, but in the meantime, I want to run my own Lemmy instance. I know this is probably a stupid question, but is there a way to do so? If I run it on just my computer, it'll shut down when my computer turns off, and there is an old computer my parents have but they won't let me use it because they don't wanna buy a new charger (The charger cord is broken)

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[–] atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I might

Get new equipment and always run my old computer
Get a Raspberry Pi
Keep running my new computer forever

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 8 points 5 hours ago

Pi is a good option because of it's low power draw.

However I find used mini pc's and Small Form Factor desktops to be a better value and their idle power is similar to the latest Pi (while costing about the same as a new Pi).

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That's not the point. For example, I use Raspberries as an ad blocker, file server, Nextcloud, private (!!!) web server, and VPN.

I wouldn't run ANYTHING on them that's publicly accessible....

Imagine if two users used it to share child pornography, for example... Then your life is completely screwed as the middleman..

Or malware gets distributed through it... Or your entire network gets hacked...

Quickly dismiss the idea of setting up something like Lemmy or whatever on your own network. The world is a shitty place... which means it’s not a question of if something will happen, but WHEN

[–] atheqtpie@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 hours ago

Ahhhhh, I get it now. Thanks :) In the meantime, I will just run communities on other instances, like my Scandinavian Left-Wing politics community on the PieFed instance I use!