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@wadethemaker The costs will probablly depend (at least to some extent) on which flavour of Fedi-software you run. Apparently, Mastodon is a bit of a beast and will need a bit more RAM (and possibly CPU) power.
I ran several different Fedi-flavours (but not Mastodon) because of the above. Based on personal experience, what I can tell you is that GoToSocial will run fine on the lowest end DigitalOcean VPS which I think costs $5 or $10 a month?
However (at least at the time I tried) GotoSocial was missing a few features that I wanted and so I switched to Akkoma, which has all the features I wanted (and a few more besides). It probably needs about 2GB of RAM to be comfortable. I found a server with Hetzner (https://www.hetzner.com/) which gave me a 4GB RAM VPS for under/around $10 a month. I’ve been hosted there for a couple of months now and happy with things — both their server and Akkoma.
I ran several different Fedi-flavours (but not Mastodon) because of the above. Based on personal experience, what I can tell you is that GoToSocial will run fine on the lowest end DigitalOcean VPS which I think costs $5 or $10 a month?
However (at least at the time I tried) GotoSocial was missing a few features that I wanted and so I switched to Akkoma, which has all the features I wanted (and a few more besides). It probably needs about 2GB of RAM to be comfortable. I found a server with Hetzner (https://www.hetzner.com/) which gave me a 4GB RAM VPS for under/around $10 a month. I’ve been hosted there for a couple of months now and happy with things — both their server and Akkoma.
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