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title: Mastodon Hosting
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subtitle: Social Media done right
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headline1: Full control
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headline2: Decentralised
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headline3: Social Media
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feature1_title: Secure in Switzerland
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We host your Mastodon exclusively in Switzerland, offering its political stability and strong privacy laws as advantages.
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feature2_title: Zero Carbon
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We host your Mastodon server in our own datacenter in Switzerland, which we believe to be as ecologically-friendly as a datacenter can get: we use old factory halls, recycled servers, passive cooling and our servers are directly plugged into a hydroelectric power plant.
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feature3_title: Self hosted Social Media
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With Mastodon you run your own social media instance. At ungleich we
are providing the hosting for you, but if you ever want to host it
elsewhere, we provide you with the necessary exports to do so.
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content1_text:
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## Time to take full control of your social media
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It's about time to take the control of your social media, where you and your community share your life and core values. Mastodon enables your community to stay connected without any compromise - be it your privacy, security, or control. You will be able to decide what matters to you the most.
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## The ungleich Mastodon Hosting offer
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Imagine your social media in a perfect world. Let's start with recycled server that runs with 100 % renewable energy. It will be hosted in a place with the highest security and privacy standards. The instance will be maintained by the experts who passionately believes in decentralisation and they will never think of selling or monetizing your data. And you have the full control of how the social media should run.
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That's your Hosted Mastodon at ungleich.
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## Simple Pricing
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Our pricing is very simple: Each instance includes 45 CHF/month base
price that includes network connectivity, maintenance and software
upgrades. The rest is depending on the size of allocated resources
such as CPU core, RAM, SSD and HDD.
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There is a 50 CHF one-time initial set up fee as Mastodon instances
are set up manually by our team.
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## Limitless scaling
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You can flexibly scale your instance as your community or userbase grows. We apply the following pricing for each resources.
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* 1 CPU core: 3 CHF/Month
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* 1 GB RAM: 4 CHF/Month
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* 10 GB SSD (used for storing the database): 3.5 CHF/Month
* 100 GB HDD (used for storing media): 2 CHF/Month
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## The Mastodon Setup
When you want to run mastodon and be part of the fediverse, you need a
domain like YOURNAME.social. This is the domain that your users will
be known under.
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## Free domains
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You can use your own domain, or you can go with one of the following
free domains we offer. Just keep in mind that once set, your domain
can not be changed anymore.
The following domains are offered free of charge by ungleich:
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* YOURNAME.ipv6.social
* YOURNAME.0co2.cloud
* YOURNAME.hjk.li
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## How it works
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After you order one of the offers below, our real human team will get
back to you with set up quetsions. After we receive the needed
information we will manually set up your instance on the server in our
Swiss datacenter. It will take 1 or 2 business days for completion and
we will give you the access information via email.
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offer1_title: Mastodon Starter 92 CHF/Month
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offer1_text:
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* Suitable for small group of non-heavy users
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* 4 Core, 6 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD DB storage, 200 GB HDD data storage
* Maintenance fee 45 CHF/month included
* [One time setup fee 50 CHF](https://datacenterlight.ch/product/mastodon-setupfee)
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offer1_link: https://datacenterlight.ch/product/mastodon-starter
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offer2_title: Mastodon Community 172 CHF/Month (Recommended)
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offer2_text:
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* Recommended for communities
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* Carefree photo and media upload
* 8 Core, 12 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD DB storage, 1000 GB HDD data storage
* Maintenance fee 45 CHF/month included
* [One time setup fee 50 CHF](https://datacenterlight.ch/product/mastodon-setupfee)
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offer2_link: https://datacenterlight.ch/product/mastodon-community
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offer3_title: Mastodon Pro 464 CHF/month
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offer3_text:
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* Recommended for big communities
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* Carefree photo and media upload
* 16 Core, 24 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD DB storage, 5000 GB HDD data storage
* Maintenance fee 45 CHF/month included
* [One time setup fee 50 CHF](https://datacenterlight.ch/product/mastodon-setupfee)
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offer3_link: https://datacenterlight.ch/product/mastodon-pro
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content2_text:
### The ungleich promise
We are committed to Open Source and decentralisation. We are very
happy to host your Mastodon instance, but in case you want to move on,
we will help you to do so and provide you with the following data:
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* PostgreSQL database dump
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* Tar file of the data directory
The fee for the export is 50 CHF, as it is a manual process.
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### Moving your existing Mastodon instance to ungleich
If you already have an instance and you want to migrate it to us,
we can also help you with that. You provide us with a database dump
(postgresql) and the data (tarball). We offer the import package for
85 CHF..
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### Test ungleich mastodon
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We've been hosting ipv6.social for some time, our own Mastodon
instance for advocating IPv6 and decentralisation. You're welcome to
join today and take a look at the world of Mastodon.