I’m looking at the official instructions to self-host and I have some questions: 1 - If I use DigitalOcean, what would I need for a new and small community, from this page ? I believe that Droplets is required, but what else? Would like to have an idea of what costs I would have? What would be my re…

[图片] Tiago: Connect to your server via its IP address using SSH, how can I do this? ssh ipaddress You would create the droplet and connect to it with ssh and then do those commands on the droplet, not on your Mac.

So that would be done inside my DigitalOcean account? Is that what you are saying? I would never do anything locally?

The only thing local is your terminal app so you can ssh into your VPS. There’s a great native one on MacOS and on Windows the Microsoft “terminal app” is really good.

[图片] alltiagocom: I believe that Droplets is required, but what else? Would like to have an idea of what costs I would have? What would be my real monthly cost for now? you should also factor in the monthly cost of a transactional email service (like Mailgun, for example). you need email se…

[图片] Jay Pfaffman: You would create the droplet and connect to it with ssh and then do those commands on the droplet, not on your Mac. I don’t know if you misunderstood my question, but yesterday I was able to install everything and yes, I did everything on my Mac. I used Terminal to run thos…

[图片] Robert: The only thing local is your terminal app Yes, that’s what I meant. I didn’t know if those commands were ran locally on my computer via Terminal or inside my DigitalOcean account (browser), for example. But everything is installed now, so it worked as expected. Thanks for the in…

[图片] Lilly: you should also factor in the monthly cost of a transactional email service (like Mailgun, for example). you need email service. Yes, I’m using Brevo. It seemed to be the most cost effective of all the options suggested. I was trying to understand the costs just related to Digita…

[图片] Tiago: [图片] pfaffman: You would create the droplet and connect to it with ssh and then do those commands on the droplet, not on your Mac. I don’t know if you misunderstood my question, but yesterday I was able to install everything and yes, I did everything on my Mac. I used Terminal…

Yes, after replying I started thinking about that as well. The tool is local (Terminal), but the changes are made remotely. And my original question was about the tool itself: my computer using Terminal or using the browser (which in a way is also local haha).

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) 2025 年3 月 14 日 10:17 3

   ssh ipaddress

您应该创建 Droplet 并使用 ssh 连接到它，然后在 Droplet 上执行这些命令，而不是在您的 Mac 上执行。

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