I have no job, so the gift cards I have are prepaid and only have a few dollars on them. I should get a job soon, but in the meantime, I want to run my own Lemmy instance. I know this is probably a stupid question, but is there a way to do so? If I run it on just my computer, it’ll shut down when my computer turns off, and there is an old computer my parents have but they won’t let me use it because they don’t wanna buy a new charger (The charger cord is broken)

  • harsh3466@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Racknerd always has good deals. You get get a vps for as low as $11/year.

    Here’s a link (no affiliation with them. Been using them since 2020 when I grabbed one of these deals)

    https://www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday/

    (Don’t worry that it says black Friday. You should still be able to get the deal)

    • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Be wary of oracle free tier. They’re known to just delete your vps for no reason.

  • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.gardenEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    I just wanna say that Lemmy isn’t exactly light on resources. 4GB of RAM are barely enough, even on a single user instance. I don’t think free tiers will offer more

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    Strato has one Euro per month Linux VPS plan (1GB RAM, 10 GB disk) which you pay per quarter, so that’s three Euros each time, four times per year. You can use a swapfile in case the lack of RAM would be a problem.

    This is on their Spanish language site but also available in German language and more (see at the bottom of their pages).

    https://www.strato.es/servidores/vps-linux

    Ask a friend to do the first payment ? Then you’re off to run Lemmy for at least three months.