Sopuli is hosted on Hetzner, so no problems whatsoever.
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2025
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nice. Most of my instances I provide for are self hosted solutions.
Does Hetzner host on their own infra?
Yes, they have their own datacenters.
They are also one of/the biggest hosting providers fedi instances use, if they'd go down, big parts of fedi would as well
I host lemmy.wtf on my own hardware, so no issues here :D
nice
Itd be idiotic to host a fediverse instance on big cloud providers.
care about privacy and security? dont host on AWS
I hope people aren't under the impression that Lemmy is about privacy.
Arguably it's even less private than Reddit, as at least Reddit has some sort of controls on who can access your data i.e. whoever pays.
But on Lemmy, that's free with federation. Maybe not the same granular tracking data, but enough of users personal data is available as to not consider Lemmy to be a privacy centric service.
tbf reddit prolly tracks more data through their app (post view time, view count, cancelled posts, etc)
Reddit has some sort of controls on who can access your data
What data?
All of the data you generate when using Reddit...posts, comments, view tracking, voting, subreddit subscriptions, etc.
You mean reddit's data
I agree.
I bet some people/entities use S3 buckets, SQL, etc...etc... just one offs for certain services. AWS can be the cheaper option. But you get what you paid for...
I never even heard of AWS before today. What is it?
Amazon web services. They are one of the biggest providers for hosting things. A lot of the internet infrastructure uses aws.
It's called amazon web services.
In short there's 3 major cloud providers
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure
All 3 basically do the same thing, real simplified version of it. it's kind of a giant pool of server resources that are leased to you by demand. So say if you are netflix and have 100 million people watching the day a new series drops, but then only have 1 million watching tuesday night, they pay based on how much is currently being used, rather than having to set everything to handle peak, but be idle 90% of the time.
again yeah it's expensive for most purposes... and one can argue how bad it is on the whole, but it is kind of what most companies have been using for a lot of things for the last 15 years.
I don't think any lemmy instances can afford to run on the big clouds.
Perks of still running bare metal in colo, no issues for any of my stuff. Not seeing anyone say anything in the Lemmy chat on Matrix either.
Perks of running bare metal at home, the service is never down (as long as I'm home)
I run a side business and have been AWS-free for years. I love when all my competitors go down during AWS outages — my clients are the only ones still online in their industry.
My Mastodon instance is working just fine.
No issues so far! Issues tend to be an "I fucked up" rather than a "Someone else fucked up".
I'd much rather the fuck up be my own, as silly as that might perhaps sound to some folks outside of IT.
My personal Mastodon instance is doing great. It runs on my old gaming desktop in my living room. Haven’t had any downtime today, so I can say with 100% confidence that my living room has better 24 hour uptime than Amazon right now. Who wants to buy some compute time from my living room?