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.
I would probably just skip the Lemmy Easy Deploy and just do a regular deployment so it doesn’t mess with your existing. Getting it running with just Docker is not that much harder and you just need to point your NGINX to it. Easy Deploy kind of assumes it’s got the whole machine for itself so it’ll try to bind on the same ports as your existing NGINX, so does the official Ansible as well.
You really just need a postgres instance, the backend, pictrs, the frontend and some NGINX glue to make it work. I recommend stealing the files from the official Ansible, as there’s a few gotchas in the NGINX config as the frontend and backend share the same host and one is just layered on top.
I’m part of the crowd just browsing and have no idea what you just said. Cheers though. You sound like you know what your talking about.
They can if they’re using different ports, however, I’d recommend just running Lemmy through the nginx server and route the data to each as needed. There’s nginx configuration in the guide.
Yunohost supports Lemmy https://apps.yunohost.org/app/lemmy
This seems incredibly intuitive, effective, and might exactly be what I’m looking for. Thanks.
You can use nginx just fine, probably need to skip the automatic deployment though.
I read someone saying the bandwidth is costly.
