Mastodon hosting is here! 🎉

sean

Hi all! We've been talking about Mastodon for a couple of weeks now. Today, I'm happy to announce that Mastodon is now available as an installable app in your Opalstack dashboard so that you can run your own Mastodon instance on Opalstack!

The full announcement is in our blog: Mastodon hosting is here! 🎉

To run your own instance:

If you're on a Value Stack or 2GB VPS plan then upgrade your plan to the next tier. Neither of these plans provide sufficient resources for Mastodon.
Add a new Mastodon application.
Route the app to a site.
Log into SSH as your app's shell user.
Follow the steps in the post-install README to complete the setup. Those steps will also be available in README file in your app directory. These steps include configuring a SMTP account, the following instructions may be useful:
- Adding Mailboxes
- SMTP settings

If you don't want to run your own Mastodon instance we've got that covered as well! Head on over to https://opalstack.social/ and open an account there.

Either way, you'll be ready to go forth and toot! Hope to see you out there 🙂

anjanesh

Can one run a private Mastodon hosing / service with 0 coding knowledge ? I mean zero SSH too - I want to see if this can be pitched to non-tech people who want something like a private Twitter system for their community (esp non-profits) which people enquired about long back.

sean

anjanesh Some shell usage is required for the initial setup, ie steps 3 and 4 of the 4 steps described above. Occasional shell usage might be required in the future for maintenance tasks.