Hey dear community, we just launched today our fully managed hosting of Lemmy

We offer to do Deployment / Security / DNS / SMTP / Monitoring / Alerts / Backups / Automated updates / Handle migrations / Fully automated but with Human support :)

We deploy each instance on a dedicated VM, and we provide full root access as well if you want to customize anything.

Pricing start at $10/month (billed hourly, no contract)

https://elest.io/open-source/lemmy

I would love to get some feedback from the community

  • ᗪIᐯEᖇGEᑎTᕼᗩᖇᗰOᑎIᑕᔕ@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

    While i can see a benefit in such a service … anyway, one (and a half) questions out of principle:

    Are you actively participating in Lemmy or the “Fediverse” at large, meaning that you’d have a vital interest in the development of collectively-operated social networks?
    Or is it more so that you jumped on the opportunity to perhaps be the first company to put an advertisement in people’s feeds, in order to make a buseness?

    … I may add, this is advertising a service which potentially would allow for customer lock-in, and at the same time it would allow the service provider to potentially gain power over parts of the network. Lemmy instance admins would in essence hand their keys and trustworthyness to a third party. That is concerning.

    And … this is calling for a feature request: advertisement flag, including an ignore option in user settings.

    • jbenguira@lemmy.elest.ioOPEnglish
      122·
      1 year ago

      Let me answer to this properly:

      1. We have interest in Open source in general, not only Fediverse even if we also support Mastodon, Friendica, PeerTube, Gitea and also soon KBIN and Pixelfed
      2. We contribute in code to some projects, and we also give back part of our revenues to open source authors partnering with us
      3. There is NO lock-in, at any time customers can download a full backup and run their stack anywhere else
      4. We (human support team) have no access to customers servers unless customers give us the permission and share access with us for investigation
      • ᗪIᐯEᖇGEᑎTᕼᗩᖇᗰOᑎIᑕᔕ@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        68·
        1 year ago

        ad 1. You seem to not have paid much attention to the fact that part of the audience you are talking to is leaving another company’s platform because of what is now called “enshittification”. Part of that includes targeted advertising. Why would a cooperative that is driven by such an interest trust your agency?
        ad 2. Hope so that you are paying your contractors! ;-)
        ad 3. I’ll take it. potentially.
        ad 4. bruh!

        You can Relax knowing that we are taking care for you of install, configuration, encryption, backups, software updates, os upgrades, live monitoring, alerts, live migrations without downtime …

        I can also relax as the NSA and certainly others too, keep backups of all my tracking.

        • jbenguira@lemmy.elest.ioOPEnglish
          103·
          1 year ago

          Hey brave anonymous

          ad1) We are not related to Reddit in anyway, we are open source lovers, no lock in, we want to create an ecosystem for open source authors … not another AWS …

          ad2) Of course we do! Why do you always guess the worst?

          ad3) Potentially? what do you mean? https://docs.elest.io/books/backups/page/overview We have several ways of doing and downloading full backups including the data and the software stack to be run anywhere else …

          Finally, all backups are encrypted, so not sure about NSA or anything else …

          Question for you: are you taking your pills as prescribed by your doctor? :)

              • Levii@lemmy.mlEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                Reading this was funny. Maybe its the tism but i couldnt tell if this was two people being honest with one another or being passive aggressive?

                Eitherway, thanks for making the entry to creating your own instance easier for non-techies. Pls keep the “cancel at anytime” thing.

                • nooneescapesthelaw@lemmy.mlEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I think the OP had a little passive agressiveness go over his head, then again I’m not the best at reading social cues (queues?)

    • fomo_erotic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      I think this kind of handwringing shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how the internet works.

      Everything you’ve ever pushed your eyeballs against on the internet was hosted somewhere. These days its pretty much all in the cloud.

      All this team did was write a wrapper to automate the instance creation, which I just happily paid for, because even though I could have figured it out, it wasnt work several hours of my time to do so. And if I did, I still was going to use the same cloud providers this team is routing through.

      I just paid to host an instance to do my part to support the fediverse. If you are from the elest team jbenguira hit me up or maybe I’ll hit your lemmy to get some help. Having some issues getting my domain to work and want to make sure I’m doing it right.