Notes and Tips

A couple people I follow decided to host their own personal Mastodon server so they can be in full control of their instance. Here are their notes about it:

Getting Mastodon running on a custom domain using masto.host

How to Install Mastodon Social Network on Debian 11 | On Ubuntu 22.04 |

Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server, by Julia Evans

Mastodon available preinstalled on a DigitalOcean VPS droplet | A different user's DO experience and costs |

Other info and hosting possibilities below:

Run a self-hosted Mastodon instance on fly.io => h/t to simonw for the info

Fedi.monster, however they're currently not accepting new signups

Running your own server – Mastodon documentation

Making your own Mastodon server in 10 steps

Running Mastodon on Docker | blog article |

Learn how to host your own Mastodon instance on AWS

How to be discovered on Mastodon using your own domain without running your own Mastodon instance Comments from those who have tried this: toot by Matt Hodges | toot by Leo C. Stein |

Some contra points about why a self-hosted Mastodon instance might be a bad idea.

Tags: #Mastodon #SelfHosting