Happy that you like it :)

Hey brave anonymous

ad1) We are not related to Reddit in anyway, we are open source lovers, no lock in, we want to create an ecosystem for open source authors ... not another AWS ...

ad2) Of course we do! Why do you always guess the worst?

ad3) Potentially? what do you mean? https://docs.elest.io/books/backups/page/overview We have several ways of doing and downloading full backups including the data and the software stack to be run anywhere else ....

Finally, all backups are encrypted, so not sure about NSA or anything else ...

Question for you: are you taking your pills as prescribed by your doctor? :)

Let me answer to this properly:

1. We have interest in Open source in general, not only Fediverse even if we also support Mastodon, Friendica, PeerTube, Gitea and also soon KBIN and Pixelfed
2. We contribute in code to some projects, and we also give back part of our revenues to open source authors partnering with us
3. There is NO lock-in, at any time customers can download a full backup and run their stack anywhere else
4. We (human support team) have no access to customers servers unless customers give us the permission and share access with us for investigation

Yes we do have specific instructions to make it work with Cloudflare reverse proxy (orange cloud) https://docs.elest.io/books/security/page/custom-domain-and-automated-encryption-ssltls

Please add some text formating, at least some line breaks ...

We do use Stripe! I've just checked iDEAL require the transaction to be in EUR (make sense), and currently we bill only in USD, I'll check with our team if we can add option to add balance credits in EUR :)

The smallest offer comes with 1vcpu / 2GB ram (+2GB of swap on NVME) / 20GB of disk (NVME), I would say it's good enough for up to 50 active users. For the storage it's possible to connect a Network volume to extend the storage up to 10TB.

Bigger plans have way more ram & cpu allowing you to scale to thousands and tens of thousands of active users.

Some people prefer to pay a small amount to a third party so they can sleep better knowing that experts are taking care of maintenance for them.

Origin of Elestio: we started deploying open-source software for websites and web apps we built, many for SMB and enterprise customers. Our process was basically: spin up VM's from a hosting provider, install the software we needed, then update it manually / when it was needed / critical, etc.

Once we hit > 100 servers/services needing updates, backups, capacity monitoring and alerting, etc. we saw that it was getting totally unmanageable… so we built what would eventually become Elestio.

Managed databases is a solved problem (AWS RDS, Aiven, Scalegrid), but what about other open-source software? Marketplaces have apps templates for one-click deployments, but once deployed you need expensive devOps to properly maintain your software.

Elestio provides enterprise-grade, fully managed services for 200+ open-source softwares. 100x cheaper than using human devOps, 10x more effective

We are helping startups & enterprises from 16 countries to deploy/secure/maintain open source softwares at scale (some customers have hundreds of managed services with us), we are saving them tons of time and money by managing that for them.

Yes that's correct, with our smallest plan, price is ~0.01 per hour, it's deducted every hour from the credits balance (or free credits when you are in trial)

FYI for people looking for a fully managed hosting of Lemmy, we do have an offer starting at $10 including the hosting + management fees, more details here in our Introduction post: https://lemmy.ml/post/1206609

Or directly on our website: https://elest.io/open-source/lemmy