Well, I have a hubzilla instance running on a Digital Ocean droplet — https://nymclub.net. It’s a minimal virtual server with limited storage, but so far it is working quite well — a couple of small glitches, but so far I am impressed.
Installation is a bit complex — hubzilla itself is really pretty straightforward to install, but the infrastructure: a virtual host, a domain name with function dns, a web server with a LAMP stack, a let’s encrypt certificate, email — a bunch of fiddly details that need to be set up. I haven’t done this stuff for a while, and there were small snags that I wouldn’t have hit in my younger days…
Awesome! You can find me in the Fediverse from there
oh and it might be helpful to others to document your process 🙂