this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
10 points (91.7% liked)

Lemmy

12519 readers
90 users here now

Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
nutomic@lemmy.ml
10
Lemmy fully managed hosting (elest.io)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by admin@lemmy.elest.io to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
13 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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

We offer to do Deployment / Security / SSL / 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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] admin@lemmy.elest.io 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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
[–] DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] admin@lemmy.elest.io 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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? :)

load more comments (2 replies)