Beginner asking for advice on self hosting a lemmy instance
Beginner asking for advice on self hosting a lemmy instance
I am new to the world of self hosting a site, however I do currently have a web application thing successfully running on a digital ocean droplet with a free domain name.
I would like to attempt to additionally host a lemmy instance and was planning on following this guide: https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy?tab=readme-ov-file
Ideally I would like both of these things to run on the same ubuntu droplet. In my mind this should technically be possible with using docker to give each thing their own little corner being a good way to approach it.
However, I think the easy deploy lemmy uses caddy and the other thing I have users nginx, can both of these things work alongside each other fine if they have their own ports?
Is this a good way of approaching this or should I just make the lemmy instance its own droplet and go from there? Should I use something other than the lemmy easy deploy?
Do you have any other advice?
Thanks, if this is the wrong community for this can someone point me to the right one, I'm relatively new to lemmy.
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If you’d like to run them on the same Ubuntu VM, I’d recommend deploying them using docker, as that will make avoiding port conflicts much easier as well as keeping each application isolated.
You should also look into a reverse proxy so you can reroute traffic from your desired subdomain to non-standard ports (otherwise you’ll need to specify ports in the URL which gets weird). I recommend Nginx Proxy Manager which can also run in docker.
You could spin up another VM for Lemmy if resources get tight and you don’t mind the extra cost.