I’d encourage you to follow the Ansible install instructions for admins. I’m a bit more technically inclined than my peers, but by no means a pro. The Ansible instructions were super simple to get going with a Digital Ocean droplet, although you can really run Lemmy on any piece of hardware you have SSH access to. (The benefit of digital ocean or any other cloud provider is you can scale up resources quickly)
I am happy to help guide you and other new would-be admins to help get your instance started. The actual administration piece once the software running is pretty straightforward.
I’m definitely a big time noob because in that small post there are words I’ve never seen or heard lol.
First thing is I need to determine hardware necessities. I have a spare Ryzen 5 and like 32 gb of ram and a 2060 super (not sure it’s even necessary) laying around. It’ll be easy to scrounge up other parts.
If you can get to a point where you can run Ubuntu Server, I can pick it up from there w/ guidance
Alright, that much I can do. I would love to learn in tandem. Just gimme some time to determine my hardware needs and gather.
PS: I think there is a community support for admins here: !lemmy_admin@lemmy.ml
