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Hi there,
in the end I want to try to setup my first own hosted friendica VPS on a small setup:
1gig RAM/1 Core/25gig
The idea is kinda single user instance with a few forum pages.
The hosting provider has the following options:
I'm used to debian/devuan on PC, so am obviously inclined to go for debian but have no idea what version would be the best choice.
In the first place the debian LEMP option looks like the way to go.
Latest experience with a new friendica installation seemed to be in need of PHP8.1 instead of PHP8.2.
Is it difficult to downgrade that?
Also, I'm kinda worried about security in general, even tho the data exposed will only be my own, so there is no responsibility with others.
Are there more security risks than on a shared hosting with let's say a standard phpBB forum page?
The idea would be to point the IP from my existing hosting provider to the VPS.
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We also operate a shared web server that may be more appropriate for your needs in that it is quite robust with a 10-core 20-thread I9-10900K clocked at 5Ghz, (it is actually variable but Linux is set to performance mode so it spends the majority of that time at 5Ghz and cooling is adequate to support that), 256GB of RAM, and all disk including the root partition, is RAIDed. The root partition and most non-long term storage is SSD. There is both a mariadb and a postgresql server available, and many languages.
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update on this specific request of mine:
In the end I managed to get my hands on a ubuntu 22.04.02LTS.
I used the refereed tutorial by @Hank G ☑️ to set it up:
nequalsonelifestyle.com/2022/0…
Now it's a ubuntu 22.04.03LTS
I just ran thru the instructions and executed them and apparently everything worked fine and friendica 2023.05 (stable) is awaiting installation.
The difference in my case is that the idea is to move a (new) friendica instance (2023.05) I created in a BETA testing by a hoster that abandoned his intent to offer hosting for friendica to this new hosting.
The difference in the installation process as described by HankG as of now was that I couldn't setup completely the certbot part as the actual domain (tupambae.org) is running right now with that other hosting provider.
letsencrypt wrote:
Hint: The Certificate Authority failed to verify the temporary Apache configuration changes made by Certbot. Ensure that the listed domains point to this Apache server and that it is accessible from the internet.
Some challenges have failed.
I just did the whole installation process being simply connected with the IP over SSH.
I skipped the part:
CREATE DATABASE friendicadb;
CREATE USER 'friendica'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
GRANT ALL ON friendicadb.* TO 'friendica'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;The part:sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default-le-ssl.conf
created an empty file as the certbot instalation wasn't completed fully.
I created that file using the example given in the tutorial, adding the domain name that will be used.
What I wonder now:
How do I upload the DB I will have to grab from the old provider and upload to the new setup?
How do I change the password for the DB?
Is there a way to also change the name of the existing DB?
My access is over SSH with puTTy created public/private keys, no password.
Can I create sFTP access with for example filezilla and if so how?
@…ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ jesuisatire bitPickup
You can export your DB - depending on the old provider you do a full export (with mysql tables) or only a "friendica db backup".
If you only have a friendica DB backup you have to create a new mysql user and a new password.
if you have a full backup, you can change the password of your db user - which is your db-password 😀
sFTP should work out of the box with any Application that supports private key authorization - like scp or FileZilla.
I decided to publish a new post just describing and summing up the whole installation process:
friendica VPS setup on ubuntu 22.04 LTS
based on @Hank G ☑️'s tutorial adding my experience/observations and the particular differences I ran into.
I will try to address the DB export/import details and eventually other issues over there so this post over here is more about the general VPS decision and particular size experience as it already became because of the existing comments.
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friendica VPS setup on ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Hi,
I'm working on my first #friendica #VPS installation, here you'll find my initial post about general thoughts like what distro to use, size and costs.
I'm using the tutorial "creating a friendica server - ubuntu" by @Hank G ☑️.As of now I'm doing well in the process and want to start this post to document differences and questions while installing the server.
This server is going to host an already existing friendica node I have to move from another hosting provider. That means that for example the DB doesn't have to be created from scratch but moved and other smaller details.
I will try to address the different steps of installation in answers to this post and appreciate help, ideas and observations.
I'm doing this from a #linux desktop environment from the console but there shouldn't be differences if you want to do this from a #windows machine.
#fediVerse #tutorial #fediHelp #activityPub
