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[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I host my own because it's cheap, less than 10 dollars per month, and I wanted to contribute to the growth of the Lemmy community.

Also turns out that it's another benefit to this: I don't have to get involved in the entire political debate of who federated with who. I just subscribe to communities I want anywhere.

[–] cccc@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m thinking about it. Do you need a domain name as well?

[–] japps13@lemmy.physfluids.fr 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes you need a domain but that is usually quite cheap

[–] Valmond@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] codus@leby.dev 3 points 2 years ago

You do need valid TLS and a cert can’t be directly issued on an IP.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago

Yep you need a domain name pointing to your instance when you run the installation of Lemmy and it will create a let's encrypt https cert for your site automatically.