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Offshore Hosting for a Pleroma or Akkoma Fediverse Instance
Pleroma (and its active fork, Akkoma) is a lighter fediverse server alternative to Mastodon. Written in Elixir, it runs on a fraction of the resources Mastodon needs while remaining fully ActivityPub compatible. For small to medium communities, Pleroma is the pragmatic choice. This page covers hosting Pleroma/Akkoma on an Anubiz offshore VPS.
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Why Pleroma instead of Mastodon
Mastodon's Rails stack is heavy. A 100-user instance comfortably needs 8 GB RAM. Pleroma/Akkoma serves the same user count on 2-4 GB RAM. For a friend-group or small interest community, Pleroma is the resource-efficient choice. It supports the same federation protocol so users on your Pleroma can follow and be followed by Mastodon users transparently.
Stack and sizing
Erlang/Elixir runtime, Pleroma application, Postgres, an Nginx reverse proxy. That is essentially it. For a 50-user instance, 2 vCPU 4 GB RAM 80 GB NVMe is sufficient. For a 300-user instance, step to 4 vCPU 8 GB RAM. Akkoma (the active fork) is interchangeable in deployment terms. Postgres tuning matters most; allocate generous shared_buffers.
Anubiz binding
Anubiz offshore VPS plans from $17.90/mo. Even an entry plan handles a small Pleroma instance. Crypto payment, no KYC. Internal links: /en/hosting-for-mastodon-instance-offshore, /en/hosting-for-misskey-instance-offshore, /en/anonymous-vps.
Operational notes
Pleroma instance admins handle moderation, federation policy, and abuse reports themselves. The fediverse expects responsive admins; an unmaintained instance gets defederated quickly. Plan for backups (pg_dump nightly to a second offshore VPS) and updates (Pleroma/Akkoma have a steady release cadence).
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