Updated: Stress Free Managed Hosting Options (Fediverse)

I previously typed up a list of companies people could setup their own Fediverse instance using:

However, many companies have closed registrations, some that have closed have reopened, others are not recommended (due to customer support or exorbitant pricing) & others have regional restrictions for clients (just the European Union).

I am also featuring companies who highlight instances they support, along with affordable prices & (if available) server locations.

So here is an updated (& recommended) list. I am also posting the video I created last time here as well.

Open To Clients Worldwide

Toot.io – Instances Supported: Mastodon – Social: @jan@toot.io – Server locations – Germany 🇩🇪 – Finland 🇫🇮 – United States 🇺🇸

Hostdon – Instances Supported: – Mastodon – Pleroma – Social: @hostdon@mstdn.hostdon.jp & @hostdon_tw@twitter.com – Server locations – Japan 🇯🇵 – Singapore 🇸🇬

12VPX – Instances Supported: Mastodon, Soapbox & Pixelfed – Social: @12vpx@twitter.com & @12vpx@social.12vpx.com – Server locations – Australia 🇦🇺 – Austria 🇦🇹 – Belgium 🇧🇪 – Bulgaria 🇧🇬 – Canada 🇨🇦 – Czech 🇨🇿 – Denmark 🇩🇰 – France 🇫🇷 – Germany 🇩🇪 – Greece 🇬🇷 – China 🇨🇳 – Hungary 🇭🇺 – India 🇮🇳 – Ireland 🇮🇪 – Israel 🇮🇱 – Italy 🇮🇹 – Japan 🇯🇵 – Lithuania 🇱🇹 – Latvia 🇱🇻 – Netherlands 🇳🇱 – New Zealand 🇳🇿 – Moldova 🇲🇩 – Norway 🇳🇴 – Poland 🇵🇱 – Romania 🇷🇴 – Russia 🇷🇺 – Singapore 🇸🇬 – Serbia 🇷🇸 – Slovenia 🇸🇮 – South Africa 🇿🇦 – South Korea 🇰🇷 – Spain 🇪🇸 – Sweden 🇸🇪 – Switzerland 🇨🇭 – Taiwan 🇹🇼 – Thailand 🇹🇭 – Turkey 🇹🇷 – United Kingdom 🇬🇧 – United States 🇺🇸

Ungleich – Instances Supprted: – Mastodon – Matrix – Social: @ungleich@ipv6.social & @ungleich@twitter.com – Server location: Switzerland 🇨🇭

DirectHosting – Instance Supported: Mastodon – Social: @directhostingca@twitter.com – Server location: Canada 🇨🇦

WebApe – Instances Supported: Displayed on home page – Mastodon – Peertube – Nextcloud – Matrix – Jitsi Meet – Friendica – Social: @webape@social.trom.tf – Server locations: – Germany 🇩🇪 – United States 🇺🇸

Cloud68 – Instances Supported: – Funkwhale – NextCloud – Peertube – WriteFreely – Social: @cloud68@fosstodon.org & @cloud68hq@twitter.com

European Residents Only

These are companies that will only accept customers residing in the European Union 🇪🇺 & Switzerland 🇨🇭.

Ossrox – Instances Supported: – Mastodon – Matrix – Nextcloud – Jitsi Meet – Social: @ossrox@mastodon.business & @ossroxorg@twitter.com – Server location: Germany 🇩🇪 (I think)

Weingartner IT Services – Instances Supported: – Castopod – Mobilizon – Pixelfed – Matrix – Funkwhale (displayed on homepage) – Peertube (displayed on homepage) – Social: @weingaertner_it@dresden.network – Server locations: Germany 🇩🇪 (I presume)

Managed Hosting From The Creators

Something I wish was more common were creators offering managed hosting to users. Here are a few that do this:

Write.as – Note: I use their service to host my instance & I highly recommend them. – Instances supported: WriteFreely (on their webpage) – Social: @write_as@writing.exchange & @writeas__@twitter.com – Server location: United States 🇺🇸

Element – Note: I use their service & I highly recommend them – Instance Supported: Matrix – Social: @element_hq@twitter.com & @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org

Nextcloud – Instances Supported: Nextcloud (on their homepage) – Social: @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz & @nextclouders@twitter.com

Bookwyrm – Instances: Bookwyrm – Social: @bookwyrm@tech.lgbt

Any Others‽

I will try to list more open managed hosting options as I find them, although feel free to let me know of any others that exist (especially for Pixelfed & Bookwyrm!).

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