I want to install lemmy on cpanel. The same way you install a forum. It’s easy.
Is it possible? I dont want to buy a whole server just for lemmy
- Marxism-Fennekinism ( @HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml ) 3•1 year ago
Short answer: you can’t be because Lemmy and cPanel are based on different software architectures.
Long answer: First, as far as I know cPanel can only deploy PHP app, which most open source forums are. Lemmy is written in Rust and is executed differently to generate a website. Second, Lemmy has its own server that connects to the web host’s server in a process called reverse proxying, and it does this by having a main “Lemmy” program constantly running as long as the site is live, just like the web server it connects to. This works very differently from PHP, where each webpage is a separate very small program that runs when the page is called, and then exits when the page render is complete.
Is there any hosts that can quick deploy lemmy?
I ran a test mastodon instance on digital ocean.
I want to test lemmy as well. any suggestions?
- Marxism-Fennekinism ( @HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Any VPS or cloud host that supports Docker is your best bet. Since you can one-shot deploy from Docker.
- sub_ubi ( @sub_ubi@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
Should be fine. You may want to follow a guide on installing docker so it doesn’t conflict with whatever firewall cpanel uses.
- down daemon ( @downdaemon@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
i’d recommend yunohost over cpanel