- Decide on your server.
- Buy a domain name.
- Setup the IP redirect right away. Hosting at home totally works if ports 80 and 443 are not blocked by your ISP.
- Make a private fork of this repository.
- git clone it on your server.
- Install docker-compose.
- Run this script to help you configure application.env and database.env:
./gen_keys.sh - Finish application.env configuration:
- Replace with your domain name.
- Set your sendgrid.com password.
- Setup Caddy with the sample Caddyfile. Wait for LetsEncrypt to accept the request.
- Once everything is configured, including sendgrid, run:
./setup.sh
The configuration is slightly optimized to reduce memory usage, by limiting the number of processes. Expect relatively low CPU usage (a shared core VM is probably sufficient) but relatively high memory and disk usage. A single user instance will likely hover at around 1.0GiB to 2.5GiB of RAM use and about 10GiB of disk usage. A Google Cloud Compute Engine e2-micro is probably not enough, a e2-small is maybe fine, a e2-medium is definitely enough. Coupled with the free 30GiB disk, monthly cost should over at 12.23$USD (e2-small VM) plus a few bucks/month of egress bandwidth.
I wrote it quickly post-hoc, so it is possible that there are errors. Please send me a PR if you find a mistake!
Made by maruel.