Is it possible to use a hosting service I'm already paying for (strato.nl) and a domain I've already bought to host a Mastodon/Pixelfed instance? All the websites that encourage me to selfhost advertise a new hosting service to me with the price in dollars.
Furthermore, is it possible to start an account on this instance that can be followed via either Mastodon or Pixelfed and vice versa, or are they just unrelated? I can see accounts from pixey.org on my Mastodon Android app and I know you can post to Lemmy via Mastodon but I'm unsure on how it goes the other way.

Sorry if I've made your eyes roll but we all shat green once.

Edit: very happy with the responses, thanks all.

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[–] johnydoe666@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not amateurish at all, but good questions. I’m not confident enough to answer your second question, but on your first question: yes, you can use the hosting service you already have. Given that you are renting a VPS that is. It looks like Strato is calling this “hosting”. Don’t use their “WordPress hosting” package for this though, as it won’t allow you to install the instance software.

[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago

I actually use their WordPress package, so I take it that kaiboshes the whole operation? I can't just store it in the rest of the memory I've been allotted?